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Markey is right re Citizens United and Dred Scott

February 22, 2013 By john-bonifaz

As is now being widely reported, Congressman Ed Markey made this statement on Tuesday about the Citizens United ruling: “The Constitution must be amended. The Dred Scott decision had to be repealed; we have to repeal Citizens … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: citizens-united, constitution, corporations, democracy, Dred Scott, markey, money-in-politics

My Goodness – The parade is forming!

September 12, 2011 By liveandletlive

I am so happy to hear that the people in the audience can enthusiastically and confidently enlighten Mr. Romney and anyone else who might be standing nearby. Yes people, the parade is forming. Here's hoping that soon it will be marching … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: corporations, corporations are people, informed voters, mitt-romney, protests

Your Candidate, Paid for by Corporate America

July 19, 2010 By lizziweyant

Americans are about to experience their first election under new the campaign finance regime outlined in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, Citizens United v. FEC.  The decision basically said that corporations have the same right to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: campaign-finance, congress, corporations, national, senator-brown, vote

What’s fair is fair

March 1, 2010 By yawu

Or is it?Larry Bartels of Princeton shows that more often than not average Americans side with businesses and the wealthy in tax debates--voting for tax cuts they will never receive and against tax increases they will not pay:“What is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: corporations, rich-folk, tax-fairness

Pres. Obama: Citizens United “strikes at our democracy itself”

January 23, 2010 By Jeff

President Obama's weekly address today blasted the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in the Citizens United case that struck down the McCain-Feingold restrictions on corporate spending in elections. In overruling the Austin v. Michigan Chamber … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 28th-amendment, citizens-united, corporations, democracy, free-speech-for-people, president-obama

Well… it was a nice democracy, while it lasted…

January 22, 2010 By petr

Citizens United tried, in the District Court,  to make this a 'facial test' and, basically, were laughed at.  So they dropped the facial challenge and brought it to the Supremes as an 'as applied' challenge ('facial challenge' is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: corporations, free-speech, supreme-court

There’s A Robbery In Progress…

July 23, 2009 By joeltpatterson

This year someone is stealing $6,500 from your family.  It's a perfect crime because you don't even realize it.  Before you get your paycheck, they take the money out of it and give it to insurance companies and hospitals and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: corporations, health-care, healthcare, insurance, reform

The difference between a fiscally conservative Democrat and a Republican.

July 20, 2009 By liveandletlive

When Republicans talk about wasteful spending, they are talking about taxpayer dollars being used  for social programs such as Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, etc.  They would like to see the programs end entirely. When a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bids-for-government-contracts, corporations, lobbyists, wasteful-spending

Rich Executives Have Bled the Boston Globe Dry

April 5, 2009 By joeltpatterson

NYTimes executives have kept the same salaries even as ad revenues have declined. Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr, whose family controls the Times through a special class of shares, will earn about $1.09 million this year, according to a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: corporations, globe, greed, massachusetts, new-york-times

Throttle Our Corporate Princes

February 4, 2009 By massmarrier

Cross-post note: This also appears at Marry in Massachusetts, replete with prissy art.Coming through American Management Associations, Inc. Magazine and the business press, I have been stunned by the self-delusion and mass delusion that has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aristocrats, corporations, delusion, invocation, obama

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