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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-28-10 04:52 PM
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We The Corporations? I Don't Think So. ( Barbra Streisand)
We The Corporations? I Don't Think So.

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Barbra Streisand
Posted: January 28, 2010 03:13 PM

I felt like I was in suspended animation as I read the Supreme Court decision which essentially enables a corporate coup d'état of America's Democracy.

Our country's Founding Fathers never intended for monarchs or the business establishment to rule our nation. No, the Founders of our country began the Constitution with the words, We the People of the United States...
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Cirque du So-What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-28-10 05:04 PM
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1. I'd like to see more of this
High-profile people substituting the word 'corporation' for the word 'people' in phrases attributed to the founding fathers. Let the strict constructionalists try to rationalize their defense of this wretched decision.
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