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Historians will tie January 21st 2010 with the end of Democracy in America. From this day onward there will be a gradual but inevitable shift of power away from the people of the country to major international corporate conglomerates.
America will no longer be a democracy, because the voice of the people will be overwhelmed by the million dollar Corporate voice. Corporations can now spend unlimited millions of dollars buying the votes of those without integrity, and can spend unlimited millions of dollars in vicious attack ads against those who are honest and principled enough to work for the good will of the people.
The Supreme Court in Citizens United v. FEC, judged that campaign finance laws
can no longer place any limitations on the ability of corporations to influence government through their enormous finances. Corporations are judged to be persons and their lobbying and campaign spending is considered protected by the first amendment. All representatives will now have corporate lobbyists that will tell them that they have a choice. They can take millions of dollars in bribes if they do what the corporations want, or they can face millions of dollars in attack ads if they oppose the corporations. It no longer matters what the issue is, the public will is going to be subservient to the will of the corporations.
Corporations are by nature Amoral and often Immoral, because the bottom line, and the legal reason for their existence is to make money. Corporations will no longer be forced to shoulder their fair share of the tax burden so taxes on the people will go up. Corporations will no longer be forced to provide safety for its workers or provide safe products for its consumers. Corporations can make more money when they just dump their toxic waste in the waterways, than if they dispose of them in a responsible manner, and they can make more money when they use shoddy materials and cut corners like they did in Haiti. With corporations running the show, our government will no longer be willing to protect the people, they will protect the profits of the corporations.
During the last twenty years China has allowed it’s corporations to run rampant with little or no government oversight. As a result they have the most pollution in the world and their products are often toxic. Their workers do not have safe working conditions and are forced to work long hours at starvation wages. This is what we have to look forward to in this country, now that corporations have the unlimited and legal ability to bribe government representatives.
To be fair the power of the corporations has been increased and the power of the people has been decreased during each of the Republican administrations. The tax burden has been shifting away from the rich and powerful and on to the middle classes, because the rich and the corporations have been able to form political action committees and hire armies of lobbyists to influence our lawmakers, but now they can do so with little if any control or compunction.
Many people think that what is good for the corporations is good for America, because the corporations provide jobs. Now that we have globalization however, corporations fire all of their American workers, strip the plants and move to third world countries with workers willing to slave for a dollar a day. The major corporations with the most money, those who will influence the lawmakers the most, are international entities. What is best for America will become subservient to what is best for the international corporations.
Most of America’s manufacturing base has already moved overseas and those jobs will not come back. About the only industry America excels in, is the weapons industry. In the future we can look forward to endless wars to keep them in business.
The right wing works itself into a lather about loosing its perceived freedoms, because of Obama’s imaginary socialism, but they have lost much more freedom than they could ever have imagined under Obama, from a single decision by a single activist judge, Chief Justice John Roberts.