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For all of the corporations that will be able to influence lawmakers EVEN MORE if they over turn campaign finance rules.
This is a serious error on the part of the Supreme Court if they actually decide to overturn rulings that limit what a corporation or union can contribute to a candidates' campaign. I'm sorry but corporations, businesses, unions, etc should never be allowed to contribute to campaign funds. It is no different than lobbying in terms of the returns that these organizations receive for their "donations". Organizations that contribute large sums of money and lobbyists are BOTH guilty of the same thing, BRIBERY! Any politician that says the money they receive for their campaigns, or from lobbyists, are flat out lying when they say it doesn't influence their vote.
In my opinion the laws should be changed. Lobbying should be limited to INDIVIDUALS only, just as it states in the Constitution, and gifts, dinners, etc should be limited to $15 or less. Also, campaign contributions should be limited to INDIVIDUALS only and not to exceed $500. This is about the only way, other than an all out ban, to get big industry, corporate, lobbyist, etc money out of government. If the CEOs, employees, etc of these organizations want to contribute or lobby, then they have to do it within these rules. A corporation should not be treated as an individual and the multi-billion lobbying industry should not be able to buy politicians' votes.
It is time that this country wakes up to the blatant bribery that is going on in all aspects of our politics and band together to stop it! If this country fails, it will be because none of us stood up and demanded a stop to this and allowed corruption to grow exponentially.
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I hope little hope that people will wake up, Dave. Very little. The world is literally stewing in its shit, and still everyone sleeps.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you've read Matt Taibbi's post on health-care reform, but basically, it's all a crock of crap. The corporations own the process, which means that Obama's speech was a circus event, not authentic in any way.
This nation is in serious shit. We are because we refuse to stand up to these plutocrats and deal with them harshly. And so nothing will ever change.
God bless 'Murka.