I have two big concerns.
(1) Citizens United that declared corps are persons is one of the most outrageous and destructive decisions ever conceived of by our Supreme Court in history. This raises a crucial issue: If our government has three branches that are meant to be equal and so subject to some controls, how is it that the Congress nor the President seem not to have the power to deny a Supreme Court decision when it is jn itself clearly unconstitutional. Go to both the First and the Fourteenth Amendment. They deal respectively with the right of free speech and the rights of persons. A corp is not a person; it is a legal entity that obtains its right to exist from the government. It is neither born physically nor dies physically nor does it as entity think or decide.
SO THE ONLY RECOURSE IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION WHICH ONLY WE AS CITIZENS CAN MAKE POSSIBLE—SINCE CONGRESS IS SEEMINGLY HELPLESS. GO TO MOVETOAMEND.ORG and sign up.
If 20 percent of citizens so sign, it must go to the congress to so accept or reject. Can you imagine with 20 percent signing that any congress would reject the voice of the people. Maybe this congress which is now the weakest in history.
(2) Citizen United has practically speaking almost rendered democracy dead in our country. Only our votes ---as also in the case of our signing an amendment—can make a difference. Even the 400 million spent by the Koch Brothers could not overcome re-electing Obama However, in many places, from state govs to townships the power of money is winning out. We are in effect colonials and the corps the colonizers, writes Chris Hedges. There are also examples of enormous differences between l percenters and us as 99ers. (l) Last year 40 Wall St hedge fund people earned l4 billion, the amount earned by 300,000 teachers (2) The 5 or 6 owners of Walmart are as wealthy as the first forty million people. (3) 94 of the richest people in the world equal the wealth of a half of the worlds population, that is, 300 billion.
Citizens of the world, unite; we can change this madness and outrage!!!! John G
