This ruling makes me want to vomit. What's happened to our "impartial" Supreme Court? How can they get away with putting more restrictions on the Unions, while upholding the ridiculous free-reign that Citizens United made legal. It gives the corporate Super-Pacs the ability to ultimately rule our country. If you don't think money in politics is a big problem, look at what happened here in Wisconsin with the failed recall of the extremely corrupt Scott Walker. When the recall effort began, public opinion was so in favor of the recall that just about any democrat we'd have put up against Walker would, (according to the opinion polls at the time), would have won an election against Walker. But after an infiltration of $67 million dollars in propaganda, Walker walks away with a bigger margin that he was elected with. It was a sickening display of big money influence, and it continues today. Not only can these corporation give while remaining anonymous, but these Super PACS are, for the most part, set-up as charitable organizations, so their contributions are also tax deductible. Ever notice after you here one of the commercials telling you to call some democrat and tell them that you don't agree with whatever it is they voted on, that the PAID FOR has a .org website. That suffix is supposed to be reserved for charitable organizations. Check it out, at ScottWalker.org - SICKENING!
This latest development is frightening.
Canada (where I live) has presently got a right-wing government bent on a series of corporate-friendly policies which are devastating for us. That our prime minister's policies re labelling are now negatively affecting U.S. citizens is certainly worrying.
Harper (our PM) has just got the go-ahead to be part of the TPP (his administration has been begging the U.S. and partners to be part of the TPP for ages).
Up to now TPP negotiations have been very secret. Canada really doesn't know what previous TPP negotiations have produced, but we do know that we've bought into an agreement that will negatively affect our Internet use, our dairy industry and many other things.
With policy makers on both side of the borders making policies that affect both Canadian and U.S. citizens negatively, we need to develop cooperative measures of resistance. Otherwise, we will, in the piecemeal fashion popular with both the PM and the President, have social, cultural, economic and environmental benefits stripped away.
College - the institution where 99% of the professors are leftists using their teaching podium as a platform to indoctrinate the young and naive into the very thought processes you have so eloquently displayed...enough said.
THey, as other ALEC members are very good at hiding their truth which is $$$ , profits above all life or quality of it for the people and planet. They are a corporate citizen which uses the mass of their profits, at this time, to stack and seal the deck from here on out AGAINST fairness, equality in favor of total power, legally to take whaat they want from everyone they can but pretend to be wearing a white hate. Do not be a part of their disguise. Evil has a way of morphing for the audience!
People will take care of people, churches will take care of people and out of the kindness of our hearts not because the fed gets to take their cut and trickle a tiny bit down to those who "need" it (most of them do not). God forbid we make someone feel uncomfortable for wanting to be lazy and not get up and get a job. I had to move hundreds of miles from my home and then another several hundred miles again, because I wanted to? No because there are jobs and people need to just be willing to go where they are.
Also the reason there is no middle class is because of the fact that anyone on welfare or public assistance has all of the amenities that I live with being a hard working person. They have flat screen tv's, smart phones, high speed Internet, cable tv. Think about how it was years ago when our economy was booming... People that were poor because they choose not to work, well they lived like poor people. They lived in houses with dirt floors and no electricity. There is no motivation for people to do anything more than sit home and collect as much in assistance as I make working an honest job.
College - the institution where 99% of the professors are leftists using their teaching podium as a platform to indoctrinate the young and naive into the very thought processes you have so eloquently displayed...enough said.
People will take care of people, churches will take care of people and out of the kindness of our hearts not because the fed gets to take their cut and trickle a tiny bit down to those who "need" it (most of them do not). God forbid we make someone feel uncomfortable for wanting to be lazy and not get up and get a job. I had to move hundreds of miles from my home and then another several hundred miles again, because I wanted to? No because there are jobs and people need to just be willing to go where they are.
Also the reason there is no middle class is because of the fact that anyone on welfare or public assistance has all of the amenities that I live with being a hard working person. They have flat screen tv's, smart phones, high speed Internet, cable tv. Think about how it was years ago when our economy was booming... People that were poor because they choose not to work, well they lived like poor people. They lived in houses with dirt floors and no electricity. There is no motivation for people to do anything more than sit home and collect as much in assistance as I make working an honest job.
Ok, I am done now thanks for listening!
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