Corporations already have too much power

First, this issue was not about our “First Amendment Rights.” It was about: Does a corporation have all the rights of a individual under the Bill of Rights and this Supreme Court said: “They do.”

Now a corporation that is owned by a foreign entity can spend all they want to change political outcomes in this country. There are 51 corporations whose sales exceed the GNP of most nations.

Corporations already have too much power in this country and now they will have more if they want for example they have tax breaks continued for outsourcing they have the money and now the right. (I was amazed when Obama called for their repeal  at the State of the Union address  the Republicans would not stand up.)

Of course they made it all possible. It did make their stocks go up as when you pay 35 cents per hour for labor and have no environmental laws your bottom line improves.

Then we have the “revolving door” as it is called, when you retire you will have a multi-million dollar job waiting for you if you supported them.

We have industry people helping legislators write behind closed doors the laws that will govern them. Why don’t we just invite the mafia members in to help write “Organized Crime Laws”

The letter goes on to say Obama bullies the Constitution so we should go back to what?

Doing away with right to privacy (Patriot Act), right to a trial by jury, torture, creating laws with signing statements to circumvent the separation of powers. Back to the philosophy of the unitary presidency as promoted by former vice president Dick Cheney that the president cannot break the law as he is above all laws

There seems to be no problem when Reagan and Bush ripped the Supreme Court and then followed it up by saying  “activist judges are disgraceful.” I wonder, can a corporation run for the office now or be president now that they are real people? President Exxon perhaps?

Thomas Jefferson knew of these dangers:

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

DENNY SHELLHORN

Sandpoint