tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313509.post2386484301623267292..comments2023-11-05T03:29:20.511-05:00Comments on Mr Furious: Democracy Sure Was Fun While It LastedMr Furioushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03781439243585972721noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313509.post-56865911880010176952010-01-22T08:24:58.947-05:002010-01-22T08:24:58.947-05:00DED-
As someone who has helped politicans raise h...DED-<br /><br />As someone who has helped politicans raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, I sometimes reflect back and think I could have done better. <br /><br />As you are rasing political money, it starts to become like monopoly money. It seems fake. A hundred grand raised for a State Rep. race seems paltry and insufficent instead of being three times the average yearly income of Americans.<br /><br />You make a good point.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12669616484991718478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313509.post-36484935019716909782010-01-21T16:17:33.426-05:002010-01-21T16:17:33.426-05:00Isn't it fucked up that people, unions, corpor...Isn't it fucked up that people, unions, corporations, etc. are perfectly willing to spend tens (even hundreds) of millions to get someone elected but if all that money were put into constructive use (projects and programs) we might actually get shit done.DEDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07266406676643270732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313509.post-68964665157439425062010-01-21T16:11:50.609-05:002010-01-21T16:11:50.609-05:00I just posted the same themed post over at my plac...I just posted the same themed post over at my place.<br /><br />I am super-duper fucking pissed about this. Another win for Wall Street. And you hit the nail on the head in one sentence that took me a whole post to get to: <i>If corporations are to be granted all the rights of the individual citizen, then in turn, corporations will now be taxed as individuals in the highest bracket now, right?</i><br /><br />I like the sprinkling of "fuck that sideways" as well. Because yeah. Corporations are a disadvantaged class the same as, oh, poor people, minorities, gays, etc.<br /><br />We are fucked. Even if this makes Americans screaming mad, and even if Obama somehow through some miracle gets to appoint more lefty justices, it will take another court case like this to undo this. Or it will take Congress, <i>the new beneficiary of massive infusions of corporate dollars they didn't have access to before</i>, to pass a law restricting this again so it can be challenged. Or it will take a constitutional amendment.<br /><br />In other words, this decision fucks us, the real citizens, not "corporate citizens," for along fucking time.Noahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345059376742159966noreply@blogger.com