Thoughts on Today's Political Landscape

[randolph]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

I find the whole corporate personhood thing to be a real brain teaser. It is so self evidently absurd it's a wonder it's gained any traction at all.

Defining a corporation as a person was done back in the 1880s. the purpose was to protect the owners of the corporation from liability suits relating to the corporations activities. Since the corporation is a "person". Liability stays with the corporation and the owners are protected from lawsuits.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by randolph

Defining a corporation as a person was done back in the 1880s. the purpose was to protect the owners of the corporation from liability suits relating to the corporations activities. Since the corporation is a "person". Liability stays with the corporation and the owners are protected from lawsuits.

Right yea because that funny building that scratches the sky--made of glass and steel, lots and lots of glass eyes--is a thinking thing. Sure. How brilliant then--I mean, how curious it protects the corporation's owners from the repercussions they should have coming to them were they to do something bad. How very very odd.

[stephanie4life]

Mythought is none of the above. If you work for a living both parties have sold you out along time ago. The democrates support NAFTA, the red-neckpublicans support sending jobs to china. Personally ill vote for a third party every chance I get. I don't care if a german sheppard is running for office as long as its not a dem or rep.

[Enoch Root]

Occupy Wall Stree (Brooklyn Bridge):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUmyP...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_1bYVMwg8k

[Enoch Root]

Occupy Boston:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu63e...utu.be&t=1m42s

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Occupy Boston:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu63e...utu.be&t=1m42s

Since the occupy mobs like to march up to people's homes and act like a bunch of dunk college kids just out of a football game they lost why don't they march up to Warren Buffett's house and protest the billionaire who doesn't pay his taxes?

[smc]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Since the occupy mobs like to march up to people's homes and act like a bunch of dunk college kids just out of a football game they lost why don't they march up to Warren Buffett's house and protest the billionaire who doesn't pay his taxes?

In Boston, what Tracy Coxx refers to as a MOB comprises, among others, a number of recently laid-off teachers, union ironworkers who want nothing more than to fix the North Washington Street bridge, several dozen clerks who have lost their jobs at retail outlets that have closed, a large contingent of Vietnam Veterans, etc., etc., etc.

I think the use of the highly charged term MOB ought to be explained.

[parr]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Since the occupy mobs like to march up to people's homes and act like a bunch of dunk college kids just out of a football game they lost why don't they march up to Warren Buffett's house and protest the billionaire who doesn't pay his taxes?

And while they are at it, swing on by Jeffery Immelt's.