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A Quote to Remember (Original Post) BigBearJohn Jan 2016 OP
Thank you, Big Bear John! Peace Patriot Jan 2016 #1
I loved it too! BigBearJohn Jan 2016 #6
Trusts and monopolies are now a regular part of Americana. Just look what it has done to us. Enthusiast Jan 2016 #2
Brought to us through third way. DhhD Jan 2016 #4
When the US government cedes the power to break up an American corporation, they cede the power Ed Suspicious Jan 2016 #7
K&R Paka Jan 2016 #3
Please instagram that to the SCOTUS. merrily Jan 2016 #5
One reason why living in a free democracy could be so great. raouldukelives Jan 2016 #8
Well said BigBearJohn Jan 2016 #9

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)
2. Trusts and monopolies are now a regular part of Americana. Just look what it has done to us.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 06:50 AM
Jan 2016

They also claimed, when they enacted the Telecommunications Act, NAFTA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley that we would have lower prices and increased competition. They lied! They are still lying!

Vote for Bernie for the sake of the nation!

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
4. Brought to us through third way.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 07:51 AM
Jan 2016

You have to be a member to get the buttons to work on the Issues drop down, on their web page.
http://www.thirdway.org/

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
7. When the US government cedes the power to break up an American corporation, they cede the power
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 08:04 AM
Jan 2016

to regulate said corporation. When this happens, the corporation claims a sovereignty typically reserved for the state. Corporations are not sovereign entities. If we can't kill them if the need arises, they are too damned powerful. We need to right a wrong by breaking the dangerous corps up.

raouldukelives

(5,178 posts)
8. One reason why living in a free democracy could be so great.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 08:32 AM
Jan 2016

Well, at least, when the people care enough to make it work for others and not just themselves.

We are all blessed with the free will to assume (or not) a mantle of ownership of the very corporations bleeding our country and our world dry. It is no secret what they are doing. Heck, thanks to Citizens United, they are more than our equals. They are more human than human. Wasn't by accident. Takes a lot of grabbing hands to take so much in so little time.

Corporations are people. The most right wing, anti-progressive, racist, misogynistic, war mongering, climate denying and straight up greedy people one could ever hope to know. The fact that so many are aware of this, and still rally around them, says far more about themselves and how seriously they take the ideal of democracy for all than any platitudes they could conjure up.

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