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kpete

(71,981 posts)
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 12:38 AM Jan 2012

Kucinich: Corporations can legally buy elections

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“One of the biggest stumbling blocks to America’s economic recovery is corporations can legally buy elections and then influence policies which move millions of jobs out of America, which escape taxation by off shoring profits, which cash in on wars, which press military industrial spending through the roof,” he said on the House floor.

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Kucinich: Corporations can legally buy elections (Original Post) kpete Jan 2012 OP
i love the passion and intensity Armin-A Jan 2012 #1
That's beautifully put. ScottLand Jan 2012 #2

ScottLand

(2,485 posts)
2. That's beautifully put.
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 05:45 AM
Jan 2012

A company owes no allegiance to any country, so why should we allow them any influence at all in government affairs?

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