Rather than being pedantic like most of these replies which describe lobbyings definition, but to take your intent to mean" lobbying in which large amounts of d

Rather than being pedantic like most of these replies which describe lobbyings definition, but to take your intent to mean" lobbying in which large amounts of dollars change hands between special interests and politicians in which case the politicians are then passing laws (sometimes written by the lobbyists themselves) that directly benefit these special interest groups, often at the cost of the public at large. To answer you, I'll ask my own question: Who makes the laws? As long as the foxes guard the hen house, we should expect no change. As long as politicians can quit their jobs one day, and get a $500,000/yr salary working for the lobbyists the next day[1], we should expect no changes. There are very clear and very obvious problems in how our government works. In my opinion, as silly as allowing the banks/Wall Street to regulate themselves, allowing Congress to regulate themselves is equally as bad. Until this is no longer the case, clear cut bribery will continue in the home of the free. (because freedom isn't free, somebody's got to buy the politician off.) [1] To be honest, you can't do this today, you must wait (I could be wrong here, this is from memory, too lazy to look up the current law) 2 years before becoming a lobbyist after working in Congress/Fed Gov't, however, this law has had negligible impact at best.