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Date Posted: 19:27:59 09/01/12 Sat
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Post 311 A: Greed Incarnate
A full scale sell off of the American political system is under way with the influence of foreign money and perhaps money from the Mexican Drug Cartel and the Russian Mafia in this presidential election.
Mit Romney has raised about three times as much money as President Obama. As I understand it, Romney raised $180,000,000, some say in one day alone.
One can only guess how much of this money is coming from corporations that have moved to Communist China.
Even not to mention India, South Korea and Mexico, or the twisted kleptocratic governments that run these countries.
The sell off of the United States of America's political system to the highest bidder is not just the illegal funding of a presidential campaign, this according to how the original founding fathers had worded the Constitution, but is the selling of the American worker/citizen into a form of slavery.
When foreign money buys American Elections and American presidents have to check with their foreign investors before making a decision such as to veto a bill or not, then American power and influence around the globe is bought by the highest bidder.
Here is where and when Americans then no longer own their own political process. The American public are reduced to proxy citizens of a foreign government, puppets.
This foreign government may decide it does not like what you say about it on the internet.
It may decide not only to track your movements on the internet, it may have its bought American president back bills that will censer your internet free speech, particularly about itself.
Literally after they silence internet free speech, how long will it be until they silence general public free speech?
It's already a fact that corporate backed Supreme Court Justices of the past have ruled that free speech of American citizens while in the work place is eliminated altogether.
I wonder, since when did we, the people, vote on limiting our own free speech? I don't recall that. It seems that with each passing year our civil liberties are being stripped from us.
The culprit behind it seems to Big Corporate Business. Thus Big Business, the Republican side, is truly at odds with American freedom and civil liberties.
Roughly put, the loss of control by the American people over its own political process effectively causes it to be an owned, ergo enslaved, entity of its greatest and most enduring master/owner, China.
Should the United States consider in the future the possibility of breaking away from its new master/owner. Truthfully one should consider what China has been doing with its new found great wealth, besides building up its infrastructure. 20,5,12,20,1,12,8,5,1,18,20. China has been increasing its military power by leaps and bounds. It said to have a Tank that just might outclass Americas best. It might be considered that just like Briton did with the American Colonies in 1776 and the Northern American States did with the Southern American States in 1861, China might take action to stop the United States from attempting to leave its sphere of influence and control. I can envision a third world war. But this time who will be there to stand with us? Who can afford not to, that prefers freedom?
One has to wonder what those in Congress who pushed for and voted for the signing of NAFTA, GATT, and applauded the American entanglement with Communist China were thinking. Or was it like usual? They were thinking with their wallets as they watched their personal fortune grow from money China had just a short while earlier printed up. The same goes for those Congressmen/women who voted for CAFTA, and TPP. It is interesting, is it not, that Richard Nixon both took the United States off the gold standard and visited China, opening up China to the west?
It seems China found the ugly truth about the west, perhaps from Nixon himself. When a nation does not have gold to back its currency it leaves open the possibility for another nation, such as China, who values military power over paper money to print up truly worthless money without restraint and claim it has value. After all, who is to check? A sovereign nation has a sovereign power over its own currency.
This brings up the power and subject of legitimacy vs. illegitimacy and who has a sovereign right. In the days of all powerful monarchy a sovereign would give a group of people who were willing to back a venture financially or otherwise a corporate charter. It would be strictly limited within precise and narrow tasks. There were great limits on corporate power. They corporation was subordinate to the sovereign. If the corporation went beyond the charter they would be called before the sovereign to answer for their actions. They would then, most likely, have their corporate charter canceled by the sovereign. A corporation can not exercise the power and authority of governance. It is not a sovereign entity. We the people are, or are supposed to be, the sovereign in the United States. When the United States Supreme Court gave the right of personhood and made money the equal of speech the turned the sovereignty on its head. Thus the Republican majority Supreme Court has given the corporations the right to free speech on corporate property. You and I have been denied free speech.
If money is speech those who have the most money, corporations, can shout down those who have little money and are having less money every year, a.k.a. the public. Shouting others down is something Republicans enjoy doing. What else would you expect from a bully?
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission:
U.S. Supreme Court Case, 558 U.S. 50 (2010)
"The Court held that the First Amendment prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by corporation and unions." Now I ask you, who has more money, corporations or unions? The answer, unless you live under a rock or in the Republican world, is corporation - by an extremely wide margin. And you know the Court had to have known this. Thus they have rigged the game so that they win.
The majority argued... "it is not up to the legislatures or the courts to create a sense of 'fairness' by restricting speech."
The Republican Justices decided they have no sense or ability to judge. Which is odd for a justice not to be able to judge.
"...the majority did not believe that reliable evidence substantiated the risk of corruption or the appearance of corruption, and so this rationale did not satisfy strict scrutiny."
Justice Stevens Dissent:
The dissent argued that the Court's ruling "threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the Nation."..."A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold."... "the improper use of money to influence the result [of an election] is to deny to the nation in a vital particular the power of self protection." Burroughs v. United States, 290 U.S. 534 (1934). - Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission information is from Wikipedia.
The Supreme Court has been used as a tool of corporate wealth in the last 150 years. Classic plutocracy has now strongly emerged in the United States. It's enforced by convenient pseudo-scientific ideology. Their ideology is to deny that "society" even exists. Margaret Thatcher said in 1987 "there is no such thing as society." Therefore "the people" don't exist. If the people do not exist rich evil bastards can do whatever they wish. It's a way of denying personhood to the individual the same way as in the distant past a slave was considered a "non-person." Thus Today in America four hundred (400) of the wealthiest people have as much wealth as one hundred million (100,000,000) Americans. Wall Street CEO's in 2010 received bonuses of 90 billion dollars. Greater than the GDP of twenty-three countries. Six members of the Walton family are wealthier than the same 100,000,000 Americans. The Koch brothers, the greatest financial backers of Citizens United, are said to be planing to spend one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) in Carl Rove's organization to defeat President Obama.
The lobby of the wealthiest corporations wants taxes on capital gains to be eliminated altogether. The idea is that it will create more corporate profit thus creating more jobs. But corporation have had record profits! Then why have they not created more jobs?
There is no sound moral, religious, or economic reason why taxes on capital (capital gains) should be less than taxes on labor. What is the inherent dignity of managing investments as compared to the inherent dignity of protecting the public (police) or teaching children (teacher) or tending the sick (nurse)? Yet this tax system comes from years of million dollar lobbing of congress on behalf of corporations. This is why Warren Buffet pays less than his secretary in taxes. It's also the reason Mit Romney pays 14.9% in taxes as compared you and I who pay 20% to 25% in taxes.
Democracy is founded on values, and high regard for the common good. This mores so than any constitution. When corruption rules there is no values. A criminal values nothing but power. In study after study it's huge wealth disparity as the root cause of poverty. The result in the public is rage, helplessness, cynicism and mistrust. Mistrust causes the public not to participate in the political process. Mistrust breeds hostility to the government and causes individuals to give up on life or on their ability to make a difference.
What is needed is a Constitutional Amendment that corporations are not people and money is not speech.
End Post 311 A: teltalheart = Michael D. Barnes, www.voy.com/40560/
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