the lobbying is legal correct? its helping the corporation meet their goal of making money right?
is this helping meet the govt goal of not wasting tax payer money?
whos responsibility is it to make sure the tax payers money is spend in a responsible manner and with as little waste as possible?
the corporation or the government?
Tony, I ask you to imagine an entity that seeks as much power and money as it can get. An entity that is run by a collection of the worst elitist assholes you can imagine, none of them possessing the slightest bit of shame.
In their quest for money and power, they maintain an illusion of being not only two separate entities, but two separate entities with opposing interests.
From that, we get such wonders as the program in question, and much, much more (99.99% of it NOT involving some guy with a junk phone, and therefore going unnoticed).
Government and corporation are separated ONLY by a giant revolving door. That's ALL you need to be concerned with, and that is PLENTY.
Anything else, and you're allowing yourself to be fooled by the scam, and you are therefore contributing to the scam.