Cartoon for October 12, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court may soon declare corporations to have the same rights as individuals.
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On October 7, 2009, New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof, began: "Let me offer a modest proposal: If Congress fails to pass comprehensive health reform this year, its members should surrender health insurance in proportion with the American population that is uninsured."
In "Bright Shining Lie" author, Neil Sheehan's current non-fiction book, "A Fiery Peace in a Cold War," we see evidence of how GREEDY and UN-Patriotic war profiteers were/are, including those in private industry, in our Congress, and lackey lobbyists in the active military power structure. Not to put too much emphasis on this reality, THEY COULDN'T (could NOT) CARE LESS ABOUT YOU AND ME and every citizen of the United States. Their main agenda is getting as much money from our government with as little or no change as possible, and in the context of the Cold War, "damn the security and defense of our country against the USSR!"
I was crawling under my desk in grammar school while these BASTARDS were making windfall profits building World War II military defenses against the Nuclear Powered Soviet Union! Is there any reason to believe the sons-of-bitches (mostly Republicans, but a fair share of 'conservative' Democrats) are able to think beyond their personal bank balances?
The greed-based decisions go all the way back to the framing of our Constitution, otherwise we would have done away with institutional slavery in 1776. Our military refused to award legitimate battlefield medals to Black servicemen, because they were Black. Our government and military refused to promote genius-level scientists because they were Jews.
We're a great country only because there has always been a force for good opposing a great force for evil and greed. We might have seen that balance upset with the eight years of George W. "Huh?" Bush. The Republican short-term memory artists are wondering at the top of their voices why it is taking PRESIDENT Barack Obama so long to fix our problems.
Yeah, I'd like to see Congress surrender its health insurance and corporations get the same rights as individuals, but there's that proverbial snowball in hell.
Shouldn't the last on have been Lehman brothers?
I don't understand this one. Tom Toles did one too, recently. Corporations already act as though they are the only individuals in this country; so what have they to gain?
I've been asking this for years: Where is the corporate death penalty?
No, definitely Goldman Sachs, seeing as they get to have representatives present for bailout discussions on the Hill.
Wonder where those record profits of theirs' came from, don't ya?
And I thought one of today's problems was that Corporations already had "Personhood" thanks to an obviously bribed decision by the Supreme court shortly after the Civil War...
They do have Personhood already...
One case a luddite bent community passed a law to ban cell phone towers in their community, and the corporation got the Federal government to overturn it on "Free Speech" grounds. They won't let prisons install jamming fields or barriers, threatening with millions in fines and decades in said jail, because they don't care if a gangbanger orders a hit from a cell phone inside the prison, they want to be everywhere. In theory, you could go to jail for decades if you put up shielding inside your own home to keep their signals out...
If only they would have let Goldman Sachs and BofA (not to mention GM) to fend for themselves. Not a chance of that happening on a "mainstream" administration anytime soon, though.
And, "we dehumanize ourselves through corporations."
Read this Joe Bageant exchange:
http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2009/10/corporations-government.html#more
Ahem, a full quote from Bageant is:
"big corporations and the government are dehumanizing us".
I got no beef with that quote.
I got no beef with that quote.
Incitatus, neither do I.
The current US government sucks. Given its reach, it's probably the most harmful organization on the planet.
But if it disappeared tomorrow--or totally ceded its power to big corporations--the situation would be much worse. I'm talking about the real world here, not some Utopian dream.
Even though it's completely corrupt, there's still room to work the system and try to intact reform.
To a greater or lesser degree, the US government is still susceptible to democratic pressure. I tend to agree with Plato's idea that democracy isn't the best form of government, but given the dangers of the other forms, it's the safest. Example: a bad democracy is better than a bad oligarchy.
I tend to agree with Plato's idea that democracy isn't the best form of government, but given the dangers of the other forms, it's the safest.
Not to nitpick, but I always that quote (or something along those lines) was from that old bastard Churchill. Anyways, to me, an unrestrained democracy is tantamount to tyranny.
Not to nitpick, but I always that quote (or something along those lines) was from that old bastard Churchill. Anyways, to me, an unrestrained democracy is tantamount to tyranny.
In The Republic, Plato explored the hypothetical "Ideal State." I received the idea from Plato.
Anyways, to me, an unrestrained democracy is tantamount to tyranny.
I don't want to argue semantics here, but the United States is neither a democracy or a tyranny. It's a failed republic turned into big business oligarchy--but it's still susceptible to democratic pressure, and the legal framework that exists could easily convert it back into a republic.
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