That decision shines a light on the very root of the problem. Corporations are considered citizens or in this case an "association" of citizens and therefore have rights as if they were a living breathing person.

Let corruption reign supreme! Or is it, "Let corruption reign, Supreme!"?

So Mikkelsen is a Beck listener, huh?



What a shock.

Do you have any more boot pics you could post on this thread, Alan?

Being fed up with Ds and Rs, many wished for a third party. Thanks to the Supreme Court, ya got one now: Corporations.

Already very evident how much pull the corps have was after the bank bailout....the banks took the money and then thumbed their nose at the govt and said F you we aren't going to loan it out. Now the pull is times one thousand.

Thanks to the SCOTUS ruling yesterday, democracy as a form of government is no longer operable in the US. Not that it has been doing all that well these past 30 years or so, whenever PACs became popular. Corporations do rule the US today. Tomorrow the world? As was said many years ago, we have the best government that money can buy.

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AMEN to that AM.

This decision just effectively silenced what little voice the individual PEOPLE... BOTH Republican and Democrat in this country had in their own self-governance.

Roger B. Taney just breathed a sigh of relief in Hell... knowing that John Roberts will be taking his place.

Amen Aunty!

Hank, the WSJ and business interests in general have never seen a problem between money and politics, likely because money is their definition of life itself. I've heard such commentators say, long before this SCOTUS decision that they don't think there can be such a thing as too much money in political campaigns. I speculate that's because they don't really see individual Americans or average people has having a role in politics, if after all the purpose of politics is to serve monied corporate interests. In their world view, I mean, what else is there?

When one boils down the essence of life to money, as these corporate types appear to, the rest of us really are nothing more than cogs that make their wheel go 'round.

Up the revolution!!

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So... we've gone from the dire implications of the SCOTUS decision to let corporations just flat-out BUY all future elections without even having to hide it anymore... to Hank blamin' unions for all of this country's ills.

Typical...

Give him hell Aunty.

There seems to be two sides to this thing: I have read a couple articles in the last day or so that have quoted a few CEO's as saying that they don't like the decision either because the politicians will now be showing up with their hands out.

My guess is that this will end up like most things, it ain't gonna be great but it won't be terrible either.

I know Hank, they always have their hands out. All this ruling probably does is redirect money that is already out there floating around. Instead of a 527 group spending it, someone else will.