Yeah, yeah. Whenever something isn't right, it's always something we're doing. You voted for Bush in '04 and said it was because the Democrats didn't have a better candidate. My dog was a better candidate than Bush. But it was the Dems fault you couldn't vote for them. You never accept responsibility for your own behavior.
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This is a product of the republican party. You republican voters are traitors if you support any of the cheerleaders of this blatant takeover by opportunistic, greedy bunch of self serving corporations

Oh come on, the Democrats have the labor unions. There are powerful international ones too. What's to say Hugo Chavez and his leftist friends, some Iranian sovereign wealth fund, or Chinese communist front companies won't install radical leftists in office too? Don't be so gloomy, it'll all work out in the end, and you'll get your new pair of Ugg boots and your Prada jacket, and be able to sit at a cafe and foment revolution while smoking bidis and drinking ale.

The labor unions haven't got anywhere near the power of the corporations and are representatives of the people. The corporations have no allegiance to anybody but the shareholders and owners. They have no patriotism, morals or compassion. They are in the business to make money and not pay taxes. You can be insulting but you can't change the facts.

To top it off, those foreign corporations may pay for the political ads with money The Fed gave them under the table.

Corporations bought and sold American Sovereignty years ago. Anyone who still thinks this is a "Sovereign" Country, Think Again! What more proof do you need than this here story (rhetorical). And if you still think "WE THE PEOPLE" have any voice at all, Remember! You are outnumbered by "DOLLARS" and the Richest 1% of the world (Globally). Their day will come! "For those who are first, shall be last, and those who are last shall be first"....There is a Hell, where their torment will be far greater than anything imaginable on earth. Pray for their souls....They know not what they do, (Denial of God's words for self ambition). To be at fault for jeopardizing the health and welfare of this nation is in itself...TREASON! But to be responsible to destroy the livelihood, health and welfare of a single human being is in itself...Worthy of Hell Damnation!

What is it to gain the whole world, yet lose your own soul?
He who dies with the most toys....Can't take it with him!
Life is not about what you EARN, but the value of what you LEARN!

Their Heaven is on earth....Then It's PAY BACK TIME! And they will be judged!

The politicians won't care if the money comes from corporations in China or those owned by the Bin Laden family in Saudi Arabia as long as it keeps coming in. We're screwed!

Isn't this "warning" kind of late? Who's NOT a millionaire in the Senate or Congress? Even if there is one or two, it's still not representative of the vast electorate. It's like all the bad singers on American Idol who if they had money, could "win" and pay their way to the record contract. They're still delusional, and bad singers.

Time to shake this bitch up. After all, there are more of US than THEM.

Where are the teabaggers to protest this decision?

Oh yeah, nowhere to be found, because they are idiots, useful to Faux News, but idiots all the same.

Is Upon Us??!! Doesn't anyone remember the bogus presidential elections in 2000 and 2004???!!! Granted, the Deliberate Dumbing of America has been quite successful and is extremely wide spread but even so, there couldn't possibly be enough people stupid enough to have actually elected George W. Bush once, let alone twice.

Go figure its the Sunlight foundation!

These fascists have been pushing their sun worship in our faces for ever!

http://www.calgaryfiguredrawing.com/images/stor...

Awake from they slumber, noble people!!!

So what's to stop Bin Laden's rich Saudi relatives from influencing elections?
We need to repeal the whole idea that corporations are "persons". They're not. They outlive people and outspend people. They have no inherent moral conscience. They rarely get punished for committing a crime, and when they do, they punishment is laughably inadequate.
It's like a race of bigass rich immortal monsters had come to live amongst us and the Supreme Court wants us to treat them as "equals". Give me a break!
If corporations are persons, how about we put them in jail (real jail) when they commit a crime? (Like, the whole corporation, every last stockholder.) How about the health insurance corporations that let people die for lack of medical care? Shouldn't they get life in prison or the death penalty? I know I sure as heck wouldn't invest in any company that would get me thrown in prison!

America is rising and the Progressive/Socialist agenda will be defeated and capitalism will survive again. Entitlements will eventually destroy America if the socialist agenda is brought forward.

http://patriotupdate.com/stories/read/2514/VIDE...

Congress needs to impeach the 5 far right wing Justices for committing treason against the US.

Maybe another solution to this would be to require that corporations be able to prove their citizenship and show a birth certificate before they can fund campaign ads. Since Republican are always so die hard about making voters do it, they can have no legitimate basis to oppose this.

The "Great Experiment" has died.

Black robed traitors nailed the coffin lid down tight.

If this were still a republic, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito and O'Conner (for Bush v. Gore), would be impeached and either imprisoned for life or executed.

But this isn't a republic, and Kennedy and his family will be amply rewarded by their corporate lords.

There is only ONE solution to this problem. Don't pay attention to the mainstream media corporate ads. Just vote for Ron Paul. He is a Libertarian before he is a Republican. He won't run Independant because the deck is stacked against Indy's.

Watch is Address to America at Campaign for Liberty and listen to what he's saying.

Corporate America DOES NOT want Ron Paul in office.

I'd love to see a Ron Paul/Alan Grayson or Jesse Ventura, Dennis Kuciniche, etc. ticket,

I'm sure the Dubai Sovreign Wealth Fund will have ONLY the best interest of American citizens at heart as they plan thier campaign donations.

I'm surprised there aren't people on the right screaming about our sovereignty. International corporations will have the ability to move our Congress to pass legislation in favor of their foreign interests, over that of the USA, using our tax dollars.

They're not gonna fix it. Oh, they'll blather about it for awhile, talk about how awful it is and how they NEED to fix it, but in all truth: to them, it's ALREADY fixed. This is what they've been shooting for, for decades.

American Democracy is dead. The people are the serfs, and the megacorporations have become our lords. The government has become a figurehead, and we have ALL become fucked.

This wouldn't mean a thing if the slaves would stop begging their master for crumbs by voting. An
election that no one shows up for would be a good start. Then we stop applying for any licenses, ignore all people who believe they possess any authority and they will have to offer their services on a voluntary basis not at the point of a gun. Nothing else will work.

Call for the IMMEDIATE arrest of 5 Supreme Court justices for treason.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/01/22/call-fo...

I wouldn't expect anything less of Scalia, and it turns out that Bush-appointed Alito and Roberts are the gifts that keep giving until they die.

It feels like an annoying pebble in my shoe that Roberts and Alito were confirmed in the first place. I keep remembering Bush's "You're either with us or against us" comment and know it had nothing to do with "terraism" but rather elevating corporate entities.

At least Obama sees it for what it is. Will he grow a backbone and actually DO something about it? If he does, will he allow the obstructionist GOP members to be seen for what they really are and who they really represent? And no more deal-making with the Rethuglicants, either.

Republicans are better when it comes to the economy, right?

Here are the bureau of labor job creation statistics in order...highest annual % increase to lowest
(notice that the top 9 were democrats and the bottom 8 were republicans)

U.S. president created (in millions) Average annual increase

Franklin Roosevelt1 +5.5 +5.3%
Franklin Roosevelt3 +7.4 +5.2%
Lyndon Johnson +9.9 +3.9%
Jimmy Carter +10.3 +3.1%
Harry Truman +5.5 +3.0%
Franklin Roosevelt2 +3.3 +2.6%
Bill Clinton1 +11.5 +2.6%
Kennedy/Johnson +5.9 +2.6%
Bill Clinton2 +11.2 +2.3%
Ronald Reagan2 +10.8 +2.2%
Richard Nixon +6.2 +2.2%
Roosevelt/Truman +2.8 +1.8%
Nixon/Ford +5.1 +1.7%
Ronald Reagan1 +5.3 +1.5%
Dwight Eisenhower1 +2.7 +1.4%
George H. W. Bush +2.6 +0.6%
Dwight Eisenhower2 +0.8 +0.4%
George W. Bush2 +1.9 +0.3%
George W. Bush1 +0.01 +0.002%
Herbert Hoover -6.4 -9.0%

Jimmy Carters demonized economy actually set a record for job creation at 10.3 million for ONE term.

George W Bush created less than 2 million jobs in TWO terms. And that doesn't include the ones his policies are still causing to be lost.

Who was the worst president in your lifetime?

Jimmy Carter.

It has been awhile reading an article where all of the comments agreed with one another. Summary? We all know the country has been quickly going down the crapper due to the powers(money) that be, and it seems as though we are way past the point of no return to ever regain our country back.

Only thing left is violence and take over. Won't ever happen because martial law would be declared in a heartbeat.

Is this goose called America finally cooked?

NO INCUMBENTS 2012

Here's a start. You don't pay taxes in the US, you don't get free speech. Period.

Halliburton, you want to move to Dubai? KBR, you want to operate out of a mailbox in the Cayman islands? Great! See ya...bye.

But you no longer get to contribute to US political campaigns. You no longer get to advertise for or against ANY political issue in the United States. You lose your right to manipulate our elections. And you should no longer be eligible for ANY federal US contracts...especially the lucretive no-bid contracts that the Bush administration awarded and the republican commitee heads refused to investigate when they had control of the committees.

The Fairness Doctrine that was eliminated by Repubs. MUST BE RESTORED by Obama.
That will enforce EQUAL TIME to every one who is running for a gov't office. We are
FED UP WITH MEDIA MANIPULATION by THE RICH CORPORATIONS.

America is done! I said this when Ronnie Raygun was installed back in the 80s!!!!

Soon political offices will be distributed via a bidding system and seats will be traded on a secondary market. Politicians themselves will directly represent companies and brands will replace party's. Voters will be paid directly for their proxies, depending on the market value of their vote in their district. Corporations will develop public policy through focus groups, test markets and promotions.

But as long as tv, beer, and snack treats are cheap and plentiful, and there's always a big game on, Americans won't really notice.

This is not the end, Corporate America has hijacked this country, We have been played by the left right paradigm. The last straw will be if they outlaw guns in America and revoke the 2nd Amendment. I shudder to think of those consequences. The more Tyranny and pressure placed on our society by Our Fascist Government, the more Americans are starting to wake up and rebel, albeit slowly. To say this is one parties fault over another is a falsehood designed to keep people fighting amongst ourselves while we are beign robbed blind. Im 37, I remember the 80's where communists were our mortal enemy. Since George Bush Sr. we have had an excelerated program from both parties to sell our Nation out, Now China owns us, and our jobs, The Patriot Act is for us, the People, not for Al qaeda. since 9-11 we have been thrown into an absolute Orwellian Police State! For those who disagree, Wake up and do the research, The information is there and in your face!

Thank You Raw Story!

· Well, the strategy in the 1930's in Germany was first to get the approval and backing of the wealthy ruling class (Junkers); then the approval of the German General Staff (Wehrmacht). Then, you get control of the courts. When you control the courts, anything you do is legal, anything the opposition does is illegal.

And so it came to pass in the Third Reich, and now unto the Fourth Reich, aka the USA.

It was really sad when people started ignoring history, to watch American Idol, et al.


“Bush Prescott nazi connection”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D6fxyOtVeI

“How Bush’s grandfather helped Hitler’s rise to power”

guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

Correct. They get our money and we get the Patriot Act. However, there are 300,000,000 of us and only a few of them.

So democrats support this decision?

I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
...Thomas Jefferson

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country....corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people UNTIL ALL WEALTH IS AGGREGATED in a FEW HANDS and the Republic is DESTROYED.
...Abraham Lincoln

Indeed. And may I add:

From "Unheralded warnings from the founding fathers”:

Thomas Jefferson speaking on the first attempt to establish a central bank in America:
“The system of banking is a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction. I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”

“The end of democracy, and the defeat of the American revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of the lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.”
“If the people ever allow the banks to issue their currency, the banks and corporations which will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

“Paper is poverty… It is not money, but the ghost of money.”

“There is an artificial aristocracy, founded on birth and privelege, without virtue or talents… The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendency.”
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James Madison speaking on the first attempt to establish a central bank in America:
“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit and violent means possible, to maintain their control over governments, by controlling money and its issuance.”

“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late revolution. The free men of America did not wait until usurped power has strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle.”

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Andrew Jackson speaking on the second attempt to establish a central bank in America:
“If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.”

“I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic, inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a monied aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.”
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Abraham Lincoln speaking on the third attempt to establish a central bank in America:

“The money powers prey on the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw light upon their crimes.

I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me, and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. As a most undesirable consequence of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow. The money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed.”

Before 1886, this is the way corporations were required to behave in this country, and it's time to make them start behaving this way again:

1. Corporations’ licenses to do business were revocable by state legislatures if they exceeded or did not fulfill their chartered purposes.

2. The state legislature could revoke a corporation's charter if it misbehaved.

3. The act of incorporation did not relieve corporate management or stockholders/owners of responsibility or liability for corporate acts.

4. As a matter of course, corporation officers, directors or agents couldn't break the law and avoid punishment by claiming they were "just doing their job" when committing but instead could be held criminally liable for their crimes.

5. State, not federal courts heard cases where corporations or their agents were accused of breaking the law or harming the public.

6. Directors of corporations were required to come from among their stockholders.

7. Corporations had to have their headquarters and meetings in the state where their principle place of business was located.

8. Corporation charters were granted for a specific period of time, like 20 or 30 years instead of being granted "in perpetuity" as is now the practice.

9. Corporations were prohibited from owning stock in other corporations in order to prevent them form extending their power inappropriately.

10. Corporations' real estate holdings were limited to what was necessary to carry out their specific purposes.

11. Corporations were prohibited from making any political contributions, directly or indirectly.

12. Corporations were prohibited from making charitable or civic donations outside of their specific purpose.

13. State legislatures could set the rates that monopoly corporations could charge for their products or services.

14. All corporation records and documents were open to the legislature or the state attorney general.

Also don't forget that there was no such thing as "corporate personhood".

That's great. What's the source material?