Democrats on path to repeat housing disaster

[Dan40]

Originally Posted by cobra bill

I never said to get rid of them, they need to be put back in their place, this is not what the founding fathers had in mind, they had to come under review every 2 years and if they were found to be not beneficial to the country they would lose the corporate status, they are now arguing for personhood, so they can have free reign of campaign financing, as a first amendment right, this is dangerous and needs to be stopped. The way the supreme court is stacked in favor of the corporations, this will be set as president and that, will be judicial activism.

Pretty hard to restrict Corporations with these around:

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I find it hard to blame corporations for the fact that politicians will sell their integrity, their votes, and their country for money, or power, or prestige, or fame, or sex.
You want to stop corporate influence? JAIL people like Frank and Rangel. And many, many others! Take away their bribe earned funds, and lock them away for a long time. Cancel the Gold plated retirement and health care programs they voted for themselves. Make it more expensive in every way to be dishonest. Since we cannot instill HONOR in our politicians, instill FEAR!

[VRM]

Cobra Bill,
The perfect corporation will produce a product with as little cost as possible and sell for the maximum profit. A minimum cost option might be slave labour as Germany and Japan did in WW2. Government has the power and responsibility to prevent the corporation from doing things that run contrary to the values of that society.
As Dan said - our politicians are corrupt - the corporations are doing what they are designed to do. The regulators are not. I'd throw Dodd, Gramm, and a whole bunch of others in with Frank and Rangel.

Steve