I signed your petition to amend the Constitution so that "No corporation shall be considered to be a person who is permitted to raise or spend money on federal, state, or local elections of any kind."
But I'm totally skeptical that this is anything but empty grandstanding on your part.
First, to get an amendment passed you need 2/3 votes from both houses of Congress. With a few honorable exceptions, our Congress represents these self-same corporations. I agree with Nader that we've got a corporate party with 2 heads. How the hell do you think this amendment could get past the Senator from Aetna and the Congressman from Exxon? I doubt you do.
Second, what a wishy-washy half-baked amendment anyway. Why not 2 amendments, one saying that money is not equal to speech, the other ending the obscene precedent that corporations are persons before the law?
What proposal is for "Free Health Care"? No one is asking for or proposing FREE Health Care. What is being pushed for is Health Care available to all and fair. Fair pricing, fair rules and honest dealing.
Is it fair that women have to pay more for insurance? Is it fair that health care professionals who see a lot of very difficult cases make very little, so little that their spouse must work for a reasonable life. But doctors (no Nurse Practioners or Physician Assistents need apply) who's job is to make bigger boobs or to make noses and behinds smaller, better shaped make an obscene amount. How about older folks that have to choose, food or medicine.
I always though of the USA as in the vangard, the BEST. I now find it difficult to see that every western country has better health care. Sure they pay higher taxes, everyone pays not just us poor suckers that have punch a clock or work for some one else.
Oh I could go on and on and on. The truth is that I'm becoming ashamed of what we are becoming. What happened to the place that always tried to help the person who needs a hand, root for the "under dog", believed that RIGHT would win out....
The thing wrong with free health care, is that someone has to pay for it, and someone has to get paid for administrating it, and the government is the most inefficient machine ever created for doing such things. Why do you think it is in debt in the tens of trillions of dollars? It's definitely not from the $50 billion per year they spend on fighting wars in foreign lands, either! And one more thing, don't call right wingers uneducated, because that simply is not true. The right wingers that I know have BA's BS's and MS's and MA's! The only true liberals I know have less than a Bachelors in education, so maybe you have it backwards.
Please. You don't think the Supremes could be so corrupt as to not want a "one person one vote" system to reign in this peace-loving nation. Did they wash their hands in Blackwater or something?
I feel strongly about many of the issues you raise -- this one in particular -- and would appreciate social media link to share these stories quickly and easily.
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