Elizabeth Warren Tells Romney Why Corporations Are Not People: ‘People Have Hearts’

[SunsetDreams]

“No, Mitt, corporations are not people,” Warren said, to applause. “People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they love, they cry, they dance, they live and they die. Learn the difference.”

Warren, who helped conceive and establish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said financial markets need one set of rules to ensure a level playing field. “Progressives understand that markets are like football,” she said. “Every game needs rules, a referee with a whistle to enforce those rules. Without rules and a ref, it isn’t football, it’s a mugging.”

Warren later rejected the notion that the climate in Washington can prevent any actual reform — and jabbed her Republican opponent for reportedly shielding banks after voting for a Wall Street overhaul in 2010.

“That has now come to light, and it’s time for the American people to re-engage on this and say, ‘No more,’” Warren told TPM. “I don’t see this as a climate in Washington. I see this as a climate in the whole country.”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/elizabeth-warren-scott-brown-netroots-nation.php?ref=fpa

[Wounded Bear]

1. The Senate needs another good woman..

Go 'Liz!

[SharonAnn]

21. I just watched "The Metropolis" last week. Same point as what she made.

The corporate mechanized society had a few wealthy and privileged at the top of the class structure and masses of laborers in the lower class. The laborers were poor, overworked, and bound in their class.

A woman (called Maria) begins rallies with the laborers telling that they need to rise up and follow the "Mediator" who will come to them. She says the "Head", the upper class, and the "Hands", the laboring lower class, need a "Heart", the Mediator.

So, in 1925, Fritz Lang was telling the world through this film that that corporatocracy needed a Heart.

Nothing new under the sun.

[renate]

2. Without rules and a ref, it isn’t football, it’s a mugging

Love it!

I also love her "Learn the difference."

[rhett o rick]

7. Did Thom Hartmann come up with that quote? I think I heard it on there.

It's a great quote.

[SunsetDreams]

9. Yes that was great

She is awesome!

[PDJane]

3. I'd vote for this woman in a heartbeat.

She's brilliant, and erudite, and compassionate, something that should make her a shoo-in, but won't.

[Wounded Bear]

5. To the RW masses, those are not good qualities...nt

[libodem]

4. A most brilliant

And capable woman. A patriot and a scholar.

[rhett o rick]

6. But her definition of people doesnt apply to Rmoney. Maybe he is a corporation. nm

[MagickMuffin]

8. SNAP, therein lies the difference

Except the people who run these corporations have NO heart!

[longship]

10. Warren, one of greatest hopes!

A whole hearted R&

[RufusTFirefly]

11. Wonderful quote. Although sadly, I'm not sure she's correct.

In fact, I think that's a big part of the problem.
The country has been taken over by the heartless, both people and corporations.

And incidentally, you don't necessarily need to have a heart to love your family. That's primarily an instinct of self-preservation.
(Keep in mind that Vito Corleone loved his family.)

Altruism is what makes us human. Its absence is what makes Republicans.

[felix_numinous]

12. Woohooo!!

Yes, it is a mugging--we're being and have been robbed. Truth to power.

[The Wielding Truth]

13. Love it! She tells it plain and true!

[secondwind]

14. GO ELIZABETH!!!!

[L. Coyote]

15. People also often have minds of their own, rather than minds owned by corporate employers/media

We need to ask each other, "So, who owns your mind? You or which channel?"

[ethanwashere]

16. corporations

They have hearts, much like that of Mitt Romney

[woo me with science]

17. What a breath of hope in a suffocating landscape.

Please, watch your back and don't get on any small planes, Elizabeth.

[WillyT]

18. HUGE K & R !!!

[Nay]

19. OMG. Warren for president in 2016. nt

[lumberjack_jeff]

20. Outstanding.

If it weren't for big money ownership of government, every politician would be saying the same things.

But today, only Warren and Sanders have the guts.

[magnifisense]

22. not all people have hearts, if you know what I mean

Does "I like being able to fire people" ring a bell?

[DirkGently]

23. Hell. Yes.