In the United States organized political lobbying does more harm than good.

My apologies for forfeiting that round. I had more important things to do. Now my opponent said that i provided only the bad in lobbying. I did exactly what the pro side is supposed to do. I am supposed to show the bad in lobbying and my opponent is supposed to show the good in lobbying. It is your job as voters to choose who showed the more bad or good in lobbying. My opponent never really had a case all he did was attack and for that reason alone you must vote pro for him not providing clash in cases. So basically what I'm saying is that i have nothing to attack against this whole debate. In my Frame work alone i stated that the 2nd round is for cases. If you don't buy this argument i will defend my case from his attacks anyways, just keep this in mind when voting. My opponent attacked my first point by saying in opinion no evidence that lobbyists that fight for you (public interest groups hence the name) would be getting their voice heard because congressmen can decide to ignore it. What we can see is that congressmen just going to turn down 200,000 which is about their annual salary. So when congressmen take this bribe of money (which is largely because of BUSINESS groups who don't really care about what the public thinks) they feel obligated to go that way. If you look in my first contention i even bring up how business groups have more lobbyists and more money and here in the US money is power. So basically what's happening is business groups which have more lobbyists to persuade are getting their voice heard more than mine and yours which is clearly more harm than good because again business groups are only trying to get their products and what they want out there not necessarily what the public wants. So i ask that you take this into consideration when voting. My opponent says that corruption is a mere coincidence but we can clearly see it is not because over the past decade we can see that with the rise of lobbying more earmarks have happened and our government has been more corrupt than ever. If congressmen really need information they do not need to get it from lobbyists. The congressional research foundation solves such problems. They give congressmen the information that they need. No bias no corruption. My opponent attacks my third point by saying that earmarks are helping his area. He also gos on to bring up the representative for my state, He even points ou my point exactly he says "she sponsors Federal tax dollars away like Boucher, and for YOU, but not me." exactly that's whats wrong. Congressmen and women are earmarking for ONLY their state to only help that state or county NOT THE UNITED STATES AS A WHOLE. Earmarks powered by lobbyists are causing federal dollars which may be helping ME but not YOU that is wrong and it is a waste. What's happening is the congressmen are voting for legislation with earmarks powered by lobbyists to basically make the congressmen look better by their state to hopefully get voted in. They are being selfish an only looking to hep themselves rather than the United states by itself. If you believe that earmarks do more good than harm that my opponent is trying to have you believe I ask you to go to this website to see a few examples of bad earmarks to good so you can outweigh them yourself. (http://irregulartimes.com...) We are clearly not being heard like my opponent may have you believe he has shown u no evidence to prove otherwise. Lobbyists are bribers and the more lobbyists or bribers you have the more you get your voice heard like business lobbyists. My opponent has shown you no evidence to counter mine about this. My opponent said that money isn't necessarily a bad thing and brought up a website that tried to prove his point. That website never said this was do to lobbying. Therefore it is unresolutional and don't buy it. Now even though i agree with my opponent that money isn't a bad Im just trying to say that they have more voice over you and I. Not only that but they will go but what they think is moral or not moral which may be against what the public thinks. Overall if someone with money has more voice than you in Washington it is unfair and does more harm than good. Overall we can see from my arguments that lobbying does more harm than good. My opponent never stated a case. He never provided evidence to prove his point. Lastly and most importantly he never proved how lobbying does good all he did was attack my case. Just by that alone I ask you voters to vote Pro because of the unfairness that lobbying brings to our Government. Thank you