Money is speech
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85135)
Shingle Springs, California
April 2, 2014 11:53pm CST
I get that people are interested in the Malaysian plane that went down. There were people on it, and folks want to know what happened to them. But I wish the press would pay more attention to what's happening in this world to all the rest of us.
I'm talking about trade agreements that have sent American manufacturing overseas, decimated family farms in Mexico, allowed multi-national corporations to hire people in third world countries for slave wages, all while those corporations part their profits overseas to avoid paying taxes here.
In 2010, those corporations got the Supreme Court, in Citizen's United, to allow large corporations to pour unlimited dollars into Super Pacs to influence elections. Those corporations pollute, don't pay their fair share of taxes, drive wages down, break up unions and contribute to the impoverishment of everybody but the people at the top.
And now, today, the Supreme Court dealt another blow to our "one person, one vote" system by ruling in favor of Sean McCutcheon, who had a problem with there being a limit on how much one person could contribute to political campaigns. So now it's not just rich corporations, but it's rich individuals too.
And we wonder why our representatives don't listen to us. Our little three dollar contributions can never compare to their huge contributions. And of course our legislators pass legislation that helps these people, not the little people who need unemployment benefits extended, not the people who are being illegally foreclosed upon, not the mentally ill who are being increasingly housed in our prisons instead of getting help, not the poor, not the middle class. Just the rich.
Why aren't the media reporting on this?
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@DragonflyKingdom (286)
• United States
21 Apr 14
The press is not helping us because they are being controlled by the corporations and central bank system and the those executives have weaved their way into important positions of the government which then causes our suffering so they can make billions. Lets not forget while they poison us with food that is GMO, also it's derivatives in packaged products, poisoning the air with geoengineering and contaminating our water with fluoride, chlorine, barium and all kinds of stuff. I have the perfect group for you called Underground Intelligence TV on facebook
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
11 Apr 14
Where did you get this information, other than "media"? Is 'media' supposed to hold our hands and tell us what's right & what's wrong as we sit there and mindlessly accept their judgments as 'absolutely right'?
I hope not.
So what are we going to do about corruption? One of the 'messages of Jesus' (from a disillusioned view) is that forcing the right way against the popular way will get you publically executed 
All that we incorruptible can do is Shine the light of Truth upon the non-bribing way of Awesome.
All that we incorruptible can do is Shine the light of Truth upon the non-bribing way of Awesome.@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
11 Apr 14
I got most of it from the independent media. And what are we supposed to do about it? I'll tell you what I'm doing about it. I joined a group called Wolf-Pac. What they are doing is pushing for a constitutional amendment through the state legislatures. If we get 34 states on board, there will be a constitutional convention to work it out
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
17 Apr 14
@mythociate Basically that corporations are not people..
