There is an unfortunate fiction that the US Court Justices have created, due to its Justices' too cozy of a relationship to big business and that is the endowment of personhood to corporations.
Corporations are not people. They are artificial creations of society that actually insulate them from laws and influences that actual people are bound by in order to benefit commerce. They allow wealth to be exponentially amassed and concentrated in a manner that when applied to commerce can achieve great economic growth but when applied to politics can create millions of John Swallows who, to compete with the other John Swallows flying up from Capistrano, must carry favor with bad guys so they can get a quid pro quo--fund my campaign and I'll make sure you don't get prosecuted.
Many of those bad guys give money to more successful John Swallows who actually do get them out of criminal indictments and thereby want to lead us into the bribery ridden problems of the Ukraine and other eastern European nations.
Want more John Swallows and more bad guys continuing being bad guys, then go with the status quo that lets Corporations be people.
Want fewer John Swallows and bad guys? Elect politicians who will relegate corporations back to their proper place as artificial business entities that politicians can't cozy up to like some shiester with a bribe.
Loren M. Lambert © December 20, 2013
Corporations are not people. They are artificial creations of society that actually insulate them from laws and influences that actual people are bound by in order to benefit commerce. They allow wealth to be exponentially amassed and concentrated in a manner that when applied to commerce can achieve great economic growth but when applied to politics can create millions of John Swallows who, to compete with the other John Swallows flying up from Capistrano, must carry favor with bad guys so they can get a quid pro quo--fund my campaign and I'll make sure you don't get prosecuted.
Many of those bad guys give money to more successful John Swallows who actually do get them out of criminal indictments and thereby want to lead us into the bribery ridden problems of the Ukraine and other eastern European nations.
Want more John Swallows and more bad guys continuing being bad guys, then go with the status quo that lets Corporations be people.
Want fewer John Swallows and bad guys? Elect politicians who will relegate corporations back to their proper place as artificial business entities that politicians can't cozy up to like some shiester with a bribe.
Loren M. Lambert © December 20, 2013
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