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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI have to agree with what Trump said........... ( gosh, hell has frozen over?)
MADem
(135,425 posts)put them in jail for their crimes, and obtain a judgment against them so that they have to pay for that which they stole.
You can't leave people stateless--they'll run to Russia and chum up to Vladimir.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)of corporations.
clarice
(5,504 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)Where would people work?
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)were recognized as "citizens"....that is, PEOPLE.
clarice
(5,504 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)WTF does corporate personhood have to do with paying the bills.
clarice
(5,504 posts)it sounds like a term that Stuart Smalley from SNL might come up with.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)It still sounds like a term made up by some English Classics professor at Hunter College. Have a great and
prosperous weekend.
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(24,753 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)that corporation ARE people and shouldn't be penalized for a company's short sightedness.
MADem
(135,425 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)that corporations can't be citizens any more than they can be people. Especially in this age of multinational corporations.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I don't think money is speech, either. Were money speech, then the poor are, in effect, muzzled.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)There IS a Hell, Norway. I've been there. near the airport north of Trondheim.
Beautiful area, right on a huge fjiord..
https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AluZlw10CCjiGnAu1fFAfBabvZx4?fr=yfp-t-901-s&toggle=1&fp=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&p=hell%20norway%20pictures
creatives4innovation
(98 posts)These corporate rogues need to be reeled in. Good on Trump.
clarice
(5,504 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)very thoughtful and respectful. His tone was just right.
clarice
(5,504 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)But I'm not a Republican.
spanone
(135,900 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)maindawg
(1,151 posts)He may have been talking about Mitt Romney. I wonder if the Donald will be handing over his tax records. The reason that citizens united is absurd is that corporations don't have natural born parents,aren't born and exist all over the world.
pampango
(24,692 posts)Or the record of how much money he made through several corporate bankruptcies.
He knows how to sound 'populist' but his actions and specific proposals are anything but. Fortunately, for him, his base listens to his rhetoric and gets fired up while he screws them behind the scene.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)that we agree with.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)stealing resources. The entire game is rigged to benefit capital at the expense of labor.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)When Jeb was gov of Fla. he allowed Nestle to suck up Fla's largest aquifer for their water, for a pittance.
The oil companies have taken our oil and gas for decades, paying pennies on the dollar of the value, and sometimes not even paying that.
Same with coal, lumber, etc.
If I force you to accept a nickle for something of yours that is worth a dollar, that is theft.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Capitalism is an economic system based on the exploitation, often unfair, of resources, whether natural or labor.