President Joe Exxon

Charlie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:34:54 +0000

Today the Supreme Court overturned a law limiting corporate donations to candidates. Basically this treats corporations, entities that are run by a relatively small board of directors, as individuals. So just as you and I have a single voice and a single paycheck to sway opinion and policy in “our” Senators and Representatives, corporations now have unlimited power to sway them. I wonder who they’ll listen to. I doubt it will be the $50 a year donor. I’m curious how huge corporations, with bottomless pockets, that promote purely profit driven motives, will help to make policies that address the problems that actual citizens face. How is it that corporations, that have thousands of politically diverse employees and little to no responsibility to anything other than their bottom line, have the same rights as you or I as individuals? Ladies and gentlemen, if you thought our country was run by special interests, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

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President Joe Exxon