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It's a trade agreement that benefits US corporations. Whose interests do you think those legislators are truly representing? Take a close look at the health c
by roc 17y ago
It's a trade agreement that benefits US corporations.
Whose interests do you think those legislators are truly representing? Take a close look at the health care legislation process and try to find where either party's ideological goals are being represented in writing.
There's lip service being paid to helping the little guy and curtailing government, but in writing the entire discussion is laid bare as an argument over whose handouts go to whom.
And pardon me if I don't hold out hope for the Supreme Court to defend the public good from corporate interest. Their last few decisions in the general arena have been anything but reassuring.
- roc 17y agoOnce again, are we down-voting based on disagreement? Do I need to mention Kelo, Citizens, Exxon, Garcetti or a half-dozen other cases where public interests were given short-shrift in favor of corporate interests? Do I need to post the entirety of the senate health care bill?
- hga 17y agoKelo is an abomination. Hopefully it'll some day be reversed like the Supremes just did with Austin and the first case that largely upheld McCain-Feingold. I have no trouble with Citizens or Garcetti v. Ceballos (how is that a "corporate interests" case???), but which Exxon case are you referring to (Google comes up with a lot of X v. Exxon cases)? (I'd also note that I believe in the principle of the rule of law vs. the rule of man, but that would probably be pointless.)