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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 142908" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>The vast majority of the lobbying wars come down to corporate lobbyists versus non-profit lobbyists. Certainly you have the occasional fat cat on either side of an issue but they tend to be the exception that proves the rule. Since you mentioned environmentalists as an example, keep in mind that most of their organizations are non-profit. Having spent most of my time with non-profits I can tell you they don't have the money flow compared to private sector business and industry. </p><p></p><p>On a somewhat related topic, a recent poll I read somewhere among scientists found that 83% of them said that government funding for research had all but dried up compared to a decade ago and 88% said the government was not spending nearly enough on research. If you are a research scientist and you can get a job in the private sector you are generally better off than if you are trying to rely on grants and public funding. </p><p></p><p>Interestingly enough, the former president of Shell Oil had some interesting things to say recently about the need for the government to level the playing field when it came to the climate change debate. He all but said that until the government steps in with some reasonable regulation it did not make sense for them to try to be responsible corporate citizens and that the only way to be competitive in their industry was to base their business models on bad science.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 142908, member: 1640"] The vast majority of the lobbying wars come down to corporate lobbyists versus non-profit lobbyists. Certainly you have the occasional fat cat on either side of an issue but they tend to be the exception that proves the rule. Since you mentioned environmentalists as an example, keep in mind that most of their organizations are non-profit. Having spent most of my time with non-profits I can tell you they don't have the money flow compared to private sector business and industry. On a somewhat related topic, a recent poll I read somewhere among scientists found that 83% of them said that government funding for research had all but dried up compared to a decade ago and 88% said the government was not spending nearly enough on research. If you are a research scientist and you can get a job in the private sector you are generally better off than if you are trying to rely on grants and public funding. Interestingly enough, the former president of Shell Oil had some interesting things to say recently about the need for the government to level the playing field when it came to the climate change debate. He all but said that until the government steps in with some reasonable regulation it did not make sense for them to try to be responsible corporate citizens and that the only way to be competitive in their industry was to base their business models on bad science. [/QUOTE]
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