Corporations may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for President

So thoughts? Are we in fact allowing true freedom of speech even for corporations, or are we in fact helping to destroy congressional lobbying since congress will now 100% be made up of tools vs the current 83%.

This will effect the midterm elections this year, corporations generally give to Republican candidates, there's already strong backlash against Obama, back to my main point in the last thread


hahahaha, we're all fucked.

 

Call in the dog, the hunt is done! That is probably the final nail in the coffin of the working class,not to mention the 60's revolution.Rest in peace america,we have been sold out.

 

Bush W Indigestion... coming back to haunt us.

Love the cartoon...and yes, we are all fucked now.

 

Looks like Bill Gates has the most freedom of speech on the globe. Roe V Wade will be next.Not to worry --the wealthy (corporations& established old money)will continue to run the country and be able to get abortions. All is well.

 

I think the Founding Fathers are turning over in their graves.

We need some kind of constitutional amendment that makes it clear that money is not the same thing as speech. Or else we need a revolution to restore democracy.

 

They came as close as anybody could to declaring the Democratic Party illegal.

 

I agree.

 

This just turns my stomach, we are fucked. Our voices however faint they are will be washed out in a flood of corporate greed.

 

Mine too. Not the CHANGE I voted for. But then this year so new has proved to be an agenda against average citizens.

 

"Constitutional Amendment Considered In Response To Supreme Court Decision On Campaign Finance"
From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/21/constitutional-amendment_n_431760.html

Wouldn't that make your day if they just went too damn far this time
... and it blew up in their face?

Let's move to amend... spread the word. (petition below)
http://www.movetoamend.org/motion-amend

 

Well to me this is the very reverse of what the US political system needs, sorry to say it but democracy in America is going the wrong way and has taken one more step to a full US plutocracy, the tyranny of wealth.

 

I don't believe the corporations had/have much of a problem donating any amount they wanted anyway.The monied always have ways around doing what's lawfull--they're called loopholes and they're set up by them,for them.

 

I would go for a revolution to restore personal integrity.

 

Politicians should be forced to wear jumpsuits like Nascar drivers covered with patches showing who bought them.

 

LOL – Good start, but I think it should be extended to all think tank members, TV political pundits and lobbyists

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But seriously the information is usually out their on political donations people just have to look, basically its bribery in broad daylight.

The reason why I mention think tanks and lobbyists is because we now have the phenomena of people having careers as salaried employers of wealth.

As long as an individual towed the right line it would be possible for someone go straight from college into a political think tank or lobby group and continue in them with gaps for supposed ‘public service’ in government for the rest of their lives.

Even for failed or disgraced politicians they are a safe haven with good pay, for example Paul Wolfowitz who got thrown out of the World Bank job in May 2007 started a job with the right wing American Enterprise Institute think tank in July of 2007.

 

i agree as well.
but c'mon u guys. its not like this hasn't been happening already right? now they don't have to hide it. i hope to see a revolution in this country before i die. until then i need to start collecting that stupid green paper i guess. like an all american zombie prostitute...

 

legalization just got sent back 10plus years imop.

Theres going to be unprecedented ads in campaigns, and you can bet grass roots sensible people are getting any corporate donation for tv ads.

 

To avoid a complete Republican takeover, the nonprofit organizations with liberal agendas will have to mobilize like never before. I don't think they can get the job done, but I'm rooting for them.

 

I think we've reached that point.

 

Genius!

 

I agree. I'd like clear disclosure. wear the ads or don't accept them. I'd love to see who's getting money from whom.