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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

Jim Hightower

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Jim Hightower
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 11
Columnist
Journalist
Politician
Radio Personality
Denison
Texas
James Hightower
James Allen Hightower
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