"Deteriorating," AT? Funny...from everything I've been reading, people in Europe seem to be a LOT happier with the way their governments are running things than we are. You say deteriorating, I say improving. And don't even bring up the debt problems Greece and Spain are having; they got hit by the banking crunch, same as us, but didn't have the same level of credit or tax revenues we have to weather it.
Yeah, when I said I learned something, it was in response to what Deist had been saying about the financial market and how it played out into the 2008 crash. I'd seen a lot of the factors but I lacked the understanding to see just how it all came together. I had the pieces, but not the glue, basically. Deist shed some light on it and it makes perfect sense to me now.
Citizens United, if I may, is the biggest offense the courts have ever given to the American people. The absolute worst. "Corporations are people?" Man, even corporations, even business owners, will tell you that, no, corporations are not people; corporations do not have souls. They don't have the same face from year-to-year, their CEOs change all the time. What the hell possessed the justices to actually rule in favor of that?? Where in the Constitution does it say that "money means you're a person?" Cuz I've read the Constitution like evangelicals read the bib- ...wait, no, that'd imply I never read it... I read the Constitution like...[clever religious analogy here]. Like THAT. I've never, not once, read anything that states money was anything more than a means of legal tender. I don't think the Founding Fathers even imagined something like a corporation could even exist and I'm pretty sure if they had there would be a lot of shit against them. Lots of money being concentrated among an elite few? Yeeeaaahhhh...I somehow don't think that shit would've flown very high with them...given that they had that whole war to escape from tyranny and encroachment on civil liberties...
Yeah, when I said I learned something, it was in response to what Deist had been saying about the financial market and how it played out into the 2008 crash. I'd seen a lot of the factors but I lacked the understanding to see just how it all came together. I had the pieces, but not the glue, basically. Deist shed some light on it and it makes perfect sense to me now.
Citizens United, if I may, is the biggest offense the courts have ever given to the American people. The absolute worst. "Corporations are people?" Man, even corporations, even business owners, will tell you that, no, corporations are not people; corporations do not have souls. They don't have the same face from year-to-year, their CEOs change all the time. What the hell possessed the justices to actually rule in favor of that?? Where in the Constitution does it say that "money means you're a person?" Cuz I've read the Constitution like evangelicals read the bib- ...wait, no, that'd imply I never read it... I read the Constitution like...[clever religious analogy here]. Like THAT. I've never, not once, read anything that states money was anything more than a means of legal tender. I don't think the Founding Fathers even imagined something like a corporation could even exist and I'm pretty sure if they had there would be a lot of shit against them. Lots of money being concentrated among an elite few? Yeeeaaahhhh...I somehow don't think that shit would've flown very high with them...given that they had that whole war to escape from tyranny and encroachment on civil liberties...
