YES! Citizens United is a corporate coup d'état & will be repealed.
94%
No! Because corporations are people, my friend.
6%
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Frankly I don't think we have a choice, it's be gone or else.........
It HAS to go Its criminal
and given that today in Montana ... "In a rebuke to the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Montana has held that Citizens United does not apply to Montana campaign finance law" read entire article here: http://www.truth-out.org/montana-state-supreme-court-citizens-united-not-welcome-here/1325688926
This will change. It has to; otherwise, we are really in deep doo-doo for the rest of my life, at least. And that's sad. We can't all move to Montana.
people that talk everyday....have to talk....thinking is not involved.....also they sell stuff. and they run stupid question polls like this one asking for a one word response......uh huh?
Here's a better question.....are people corporations?
But here's the best question...why aren't YOU a corporation?
and I do mean YOU!!!!!!!! Now there are from time to time. some guests that are proportionately intelligent
but intelligence is "specialised"......narrowed and limited.....Mr Hartmann is not living under the poverty line which
explains why he thinks Stockholm is in Denmark ( see ancient sunlight ) and the word unconstitutional, is meaningless and has been since 1939, finalised in 1952.......
Good intentions are not enough....and "solutions" do not arise from mainstream babble....conventional babble ......
Even Warren Buffet is an idiot....he actualy pay himself a salary, which is taxed at a higher rate than the 15% he pays on everything else......for appearances?
Now, if you were a corporation......and there is NO REASON to prevent you from becoming one,,,,YOU would have the same benefits that current corporations do.......now not to really tax ( no pun intended ) your intellect.....as Mr. Hartmann points out corps are required to OPERATE AND GENERATE PROFITS FOR THE SHAREHOLDERS, which places you as a corp in a very unique position.........because YOU a both the engine upon which the profit depends.....which means that whatever you need to operate at maximum effeciency is a "business expense" for the covenience of the corp......everything over and above is profit, which will be taxed at 15%......
Sometimes....it is not neccessary to beat someone to win.....joining can be far more effective!!!!!!!!!
America took a hard turn to the right. Those who call themselves "progressives" today are very much like the conservatives of the 1960s. The social policies promoted by Republican Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon are much too liberal/Socialist for today's progressives. Who would have thought that we would see a day when the richest pander to the bourgeoisie who spit in the faces of the poor? Adding to the absurdity of today's generation is the fact that so many middle classers ultimately choose the "poverty lifestyle" for themselves! Now how can one make sense out of such a strange people?
What will define this generation in history: At the same time that we ended basic poverty relief for Americans, we redistributed several trillion taxpayer dollars from the US Treasury into the bank accounts of the wealthiest few. Now we have a middle class pleading with government to help them AFTER they had insisted that this is not the role of government. Weird. Anyway, if any of those middle classers (to whom politicians and the media endlessly pander) are disatisfied with the conditions created/allowed by the middle class, remember what we told the poor: "Stop whining, get up every day, work hard and play by all the rules. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. If one job doesn't pay enough, work two jobs, or three, and go to college in your spare time to become more employable. Helping people creates a culture of dependency, so You're On Your Own." Above all, remember what is written into the welfare reform policies that won such much approval from the middle class: There is NO acceptable reason for failing to be employed. Period. Take personal responsibility, and accept the consequences.
The "progressive" liberals display their cognitive dissonance in every disingenuous position they take. If they didn't want the corporate persons to control the government of natural persons while deliberately destroying the human habitable environment, then they wouldn't be (D) dedicated to the corporate party.
It is the "progressive" liberal (D) faction of the corporate party that has made America's fascism so sustainable... which has resulted in our human habitable climate now being so perishable.
Our children have no future, because too many millions of devious depraved liberals have been irredeemably life-long addicted to the corporate persons' corporate party... ensuring that evil always won.
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I would think that some corporations who now will loose a competitive edged due to the stacking of the deck in our government might start fighting against Citizens United.
Nobody wants to live in a dog eat dog world.
I am heartened by the response to this vote. It means a lot of people are positive that this thing will go down. It may not be tomorrow, next month or even anytime this year, but it will go down one way or another.
Good one. Unfortunately, the greedy ones who are taking advantage of this ruling probably don't believe in dogs. Ha!
I would like to see the conversation flipped. I will concede that corporations are people/persons, when considering the origin of the word[s] it would appear an accurate statement anyways. But instead of trying to reason that a corporation can't be a person, why don't we ask how the f@ck can a human be a person? If a person can be owned then let corporations be people all day long just don't insult me by associating me with some piece of property by calling me a person, or my child! So, corporate personhood only works to reveal that it's advocates view humans as property.
I voted NO, not because I agreed with the response stem but rather because people like money too much and it will take more than America is capable of doing to dislocate the decision.
I'll believe that corporations are people when Exxon/Mobil gets a death sentence and GE gets a mammogram.