My Sirius subscription expires on the 22nd and I called to renew. After reviewing their packages I selected one and as we got around to taking my card number they said... "Ok, we have you set up for the monthly plan at $12.95 plus the $1.98 artist royalty fee so you will be charged 14.93 a month."
I said not a chance am I paying a royalty fee on top of my subscription fee. You just lost a subscriber.
Politicians listen to the lobbyists because it is easier than doing the research themselves, and the only thing we can do is a massive grass roots effort to make things better.
This is 2009 for goodness sakes. Why can't we move all of the house of representatives back into their districts and let them telecommute? This would solve the problems of lobbyists. Can you imagine traveling to each district rather than door to door in DC? "Broadband" speeds would probably go up too. I'm just saying...
"It is better to have tried and failed than to have failed to try, but the result's the same." - Mike Dennison