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Building a Fair America: the Plan to defeat corporate power
The U.S.A. is under attack.
For too long, global corporations have gamed our politics to increase their profits, no matter what the cost to ordinary Americans, small businesses, and the total economy.
Beginning in the 1970s, corporate “special interests” gradually gained almost total control of both major political parties. Now their corrupt agents use Congress, the Executive Branch, and the courts to plunder the American people, pillage our Treasury, and bury us in debt.
These corporate cartels privatize the profits, but socialize the losses, creating a nightmare of ruthless vampire capitalism for the many, and corrupt corporatist socialism for the few.
Middle-class Americans may disagree about issues like abortion, but it’s time to put our differences aside. Global corporations are sabotaging our national security and destroying our future. If we don’t unite and fight back, the U.S.A. will gradually become a third-world country.
Fair America is a populist organization with new political weapons that can defeat our corporate enemies and build a better America. We welcome you to the fight!
Check us out at http://www.fairamerica.us.
Comments
Whoever you are, the Fair America Short List is awesome !!!
~ All the things the neo-liberal Dems forgot to ask for ~ all in one easy to read page!
It is clear from the Citizen United decision that the present SCOTUS needs the clear instruction that corporations are not people. The SCOTUS demands that we make a clear affirmation of the foundational principles that we have inalienable rights as humans and that corporations are neither humans nor assemblies of humans. When it was written, the US Constitution was an astounding leap forward for human rights. It is past time to make the US Constitution a clear declaration of the natural human rights of We The People. We should include the parts of the Declaration of Independence that most people think are already in the US Constitution::
And as a crystal clear antidote to present and future Citizen's United rulings we need an exclusion of business entities from humanity ::
All of the seemingly impossible battles against for-profit health care, permanent war, bank usury and exorbitant fees, financial frauds, dependence on foreign oil and other fossil fuels, near monopolies in every sector of the economy and the privateers' undying threat to the ways we care for our old, young and infirm fellow humans... ALL these battles trace their roots back to Corporate Personhood. Heck, in the first Tea Party, the colonists got naked and tore up the property of the largest multinational corporation of the time...
Please add * Abolish Corporate Personhood to the top section of your Short List.
And there is zero contact information and no contact method on your site - I understand your concern in taking this heroic stance against the Herculean problem of our day, country and world. The lack of contact info or even just a form is still a bit spooky. On Social Security Tax we should flip the cap = exclude wage income below median or poverty lines with no limit above. On the environment we we must transistion to the Precautionary Principle so that any synthesized chemical must be shown to be safe before it is used in food, on humans or released into the environment. Otherwise I can barely niggle with the basic platform you have presented. Again, awesome!! And thank you.
Add No Corporate Personhood to the Amendment (NO future Citizen United decisions allowed!) and I will canvass with the Short List until I find other canvassers, and then, I will canvass with them until we blanket the area, and then... It is a long ways from here to 2012...
Hello LeMoyne,
thanks for your warm response.
We avoided framing the right to health care as part of the right to life expressed in the Declaration of Independence because the words "right to life" unfortunately evoke for many Americans the abortion debate. We know that Corporatists use such wedge issues to divide the middle class, and therefore are careful to avoid language that can alienate voters by implying a position on issues charged with religious controversy (such as gay marriage). Our focus is on saving the American middle class by putting our economic house in order. We believe that since John Maynard Keynes and the New Deal, the answers as to how to do that are cut and dried. Only after we restore a fair economy and the rule of the People should we return to arguing about "social" issues.
As you might have guessed, we agree with you about abolishing corporate personhood and have added language to that effect in the Short List and the front page. We also agree that workers with low incomes should not have to pay payroll taxes and have added that as well. Since we don't really have an "environment" item on the list, except indirectly through the issue of Energy, there's no logical place to stick in an improved FDA, etc., but probably that's not really necessary. Any Congress that would pass the Short List would also pass other populist legislation.
We have also changed the settings on our site to allow users without membership accounts to view the Contact button on the menu bar and to Contact us (previously we only allowed members who had created accounts with us to contact us, as a measure to avoid spam).
We encourage you to sign our Declaration (you can make your signature public or keep it hidden as you like) and to contact us. Obviously, we would also welcome canvassing to raise awareness of the site and its plan--and thereby to raise awareness of the real causes of the decline of the middle class, and the real answers as to how we can build a fair America.