"Dave Drum -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
news:30529$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 DD>> Well, guess what? BBB is business in and of itself. A triumph of
 DD>> marketing. They are in the business of selling memberships and
 DD>   gulling DD> the public into believing that their endorsements or
 DD>   membership in the DD> BBB actually mean something beyond a
 DD>   commission for the salesman who DD> signed up the business
 DD>   displaying the BBB logo.

 DD>> Hell, it's not as good a deal as the National Federation of
 DD>> Independent Business (NFIB) which also sells memberships - but,
 DD>   which DD> will survey its membership on directions the association
 DD>   will take and DD> projects that the members support that they will
 DD>   lobby for on the DD> members' behalf.

 RS>> This Los Angeles BBB sounds corrupt as hell.

 RS>> Giving out great ratings to those who pay them, while ignoring
 RS>> literally dozens of complaints.

 DD> Sounds like politics. And we all that politicians are not corrupt.
 DD> Right?

Unfortunately, corruption in politics is nothing new, and nothing that will
end soon.

Newt Gingrich is jockeying for a run at the 2012 presidential election, and
he's making all the standard right-wing comments.

So is Sarah the Quitter.

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