The US Census Bureau thread

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What reflects the "resurgence" of the city is the expansion of governement projects, agencies and bureaucrats; private businessmen, lobbyists, lawyers, economists, consultants, PR specialists, ad men, influence peddlers; non-governement organizations dependent on government grants (which are in effect more lobbyists trying to get funds out of the government for every possible cause, left or right, good or bad, sensible or just plain ridiculous).

It will be interesting to see the future of this new set of young people. Arguably, Citizens United v. FEC could bring a whole new wave of these "influence peddlers" spending money to influence governement. Or, conversely, it could move the influence seekers back out to the rest of the country, since going direct to the public with a message will be easier than trying to influence bureaucrats in DC, who are pretty much already networked in to the biggest lobbyists.