Robert J. Samuelson uses his latest Newsweek column to describe one likely impact from increased government intervention by the Obama administration:
The only way to eliminate lobbying and special interests is to eliminate government. The more powerful government becomes, the more lobbying there will be. So, paradoxically, Obama’s ambitions for more expansive government will promote special pleading. You need only watch the response to the expected “economic stimulus” plan ? totaling perhaps $700 billion ? to verify this eternal truth.
