Forum Post: Titties and Beer
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 4, 2011, 5:18 p.m. EST by mtmama
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Every election cycle, we hear “vote the incumbents out!” Yet, as long as the process remains the same, it does not matter who gets elected, b/c no matter how noble the “public servant” may appear in the beginning (i.e., Obama in 2007), public servants will eventually learn to eat or be eaten.
Perhaps one way to change the system is to support campaign finance reform to limit the amount of corporate corruption that finances Washington now. The Fair Elections Now Act (Senate Bill 750 and HR Bill 1404) was re-introduced in April 2011. It’s limited to congressional elections and hopefully, in the future, the same premise may help shape the presidential elections. Although far from perfect (it’s voluntary), it may help legislators to remember that their constituents’ interest are not the same as Wall Street, and may also allow the legislators to focus on the issues instead of fundraising. Details about the bill can be found at www.fairelectionsnow.org/about-bill.
Opponents of the Fair Elections Now Act believe that money equals free speech, as expressed in the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v FEC. A lot people think the Citizens United established that corporations are people, but this definition goes back as far as US Supreme Court decisions from the 1880s. Citizens United, in addition to overruling established case law to limit corporation donations, says that limiting money to campaigns violates free speech. That is, the court is interpreting Thomas Jefferson’s 1st amendment protections to suggest that corporations have individual human rights! CRAZY. CRAZY!
But, we can support this bill. It’s a start, and maybe it will begin to crumble evil corporatism that must make our founders fathers roll over and over and over...
Bill Summary & Status 112th Congress (2011 - 2012) S.750 All Information
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Back to Bill Summary and Status Print Subscribe Share/Save S.750 Latest Title: Fair Elections Now Act Sponsor: Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] (introduced 4/6/2011) Cosponsors (13) Related Bills: H.R.1404 Latest Major Action: 4/12/2011 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held.
stayin' alive
Does it seem like Americans are Flakes? (sheik yerbouti) Hmm...
I read Justice Stevens's dissent. I couldn't stomach the majority.
I like that...titties and beer..or give me death!
aww man. this is forum fraud!. I was hoping to finally read something interesting. Titties & BEER or give me death
Watch out where the huskies go, don't eat the yellow snow. Zappa bump : D
Maybe the Boston Tea Partiers were trolls!!!
You were told that, yes. I was told that OWS was the new American Revolution. Doh!
you were told "buy" the American marketing system.
You seriously need to read Citizen's United. It's available online and only about twenty pages in length.
I was told there would be titties and beer...
lol, very appropriate response, even though you seem a bit trollish, the subject matter of this post is no joke - but very funny comment