If you
believe that you live in a democracy, you have been suckered into the
belief. For a very long time this has
been a country ruled by large dollar interests.
Recently the Roberts’ Supreme Court made the “Gold Rules” system of
government official with two decisions.
One, the “Citizens United” (It’s
for you, sucker!) decision, which gave corporations the right to give
unlimited, anonymous dollars to a Political Action Committee (PAC). Two, the recent McCutcheon v. Federal Election
Commission, invalidated limits on the overall amount of annual donations an
individual can give to federal candidates and committees. The existing limit of $123,200, already too
high, was increased to over three and a half million dollars. So, the Koch brothers can contribute over
seven millions dollars personally, and unlimited political donations through
the multitudes of corporations that they control. You still get one vote.
The Roberts’
Court, which consists of Roberts himself and four puppets, constituting a
simple majority, believe that large money in some way resembles freedom of
speech. A ten dollar donation to a
person’s favorite candidate may resemble freedom of speech (although it isn’t),
but millions of dollars into a campaign from a single source controls the
candidate, a control that you as a citizen and your well-being do not even
begin to compete with. When your
interests are involved in a Supreme Court decision, you are at an away
game. Large corporations are on their
home court. The corporations, which were
designed as a legal tool to carry out business, are now seen as citizens with
constitutional and civil rights. You,
the actual citizen, are not even equal to a smudge on a corporate wall.
A couple of
obvious examples of corporate government influence would be the war in Iraq and
the recent “Affordable Healthcare Act”.
Our nation knew before entering a conflict with Iraq, that Iraq was not
involved in 9/11. We also knew before
starting the war that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. Bush pulled out the UN inspectors, on a 90 day
inspection, in 60 days, and bombed, with no weapons found and it was well known
before we attacked that the terrorists involved in 9/11, were Saudi. The war was to aid munition sales and the
Haliburton war logistic systems. Suckers
believe that the war had something to do with their freedom. I can’t draw the logical connection. Your universal healthcare act was written
with the aid of health insurance lobbyists, for corporate benefit. If it were not, it would have been a single
payer system called Americare. Other
countries, not under the corporate thumb, offer systems of healthcare at lower
cost, with better results and they offer care to all of their citizens.
I have been
a lobbyist to the Arizona Legislature and I have witnessed large corporations,
copper and cattle, not the citizens of the state, rule! We are no longer a country, “Of The People,
By The People and For The People”, that is if we ever were. Someone is calling your name and I hope that
it isn't the Koch brothers and their ilk.
Comments are welcome, Old Buz
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