Absolutely true, and well said!

"corporations (which don't like unions in ANY case) would scream bloody murder being comprised as they are of liars, psychopaths and hypocrites who cannot be held to their own 'standards'!"

Look around in your town. You will find that the gas station owner, the shoe store salesman, the real estate company, and the attorney are "incorporated." Heck, my dentist is incorporated.

Corporations are not evil entities, no matter how much your radical socialist ideology demands that you destroy every vesitge of the free market.

Unions in the private sector have thankfully been on the decline since the 1950s.

So, the anti-freedom to work people focus on GOVERNMENT unions. But starting with the great Ronald Reagan, we the American people have managed to restrain them and make them adhere to their public trust. Now that Scott Walker has won in Wisconsin, this will give an impetus to stop the GOVERNMENT unions to expand and rob the taxpayers.

In addition, liberty is spreading in more and more Right-to-Work states as they increase. I have not kept up with Michigan: Did it pass legislation to have more freedom there by allowing workers to refuse to give up part of their pay to unions? I certainly hope so.

Unions are finished in this country. The NEA has helped in the ruination of education and burdening communities with excess and wasteful expenditures, and the American people are waking up to it. Homeschooling is one result, for example, and this radical anti-freedom union (NEA) tried to thwart this noble movement. But it could not. The American people love freedom too much to let unions and their thugs take it.

Beautifully said!

You're optimistically figuring history will still be taught? Not so sure myself. The winners write the history, so this will be cleaned up.

Perfect!

Isn't Wiki edited by it's members? Who is to say it wasn't edited by a republican .

Typical response from the Left. This is precisely why I never provide sources, links to Liberals when they request them. They always do the same thing. Always. Never an exception. Never.

Typical response from the Neo-Cons post something that is as reliable as watch without hands.

one should be careful useing the words Never & Always .Most of the time it's being used by someone that has no proper rebuttal.

No, to claim that Gallup is invalid or right-wing is simply a response from the Left that wants to deny facts, data, and good sources. This is always what they do. I actually tried, on different forums, to present sources and data. But the Left-wingers Never accepts any. Not even when I used government sources. If the data conflicted with their dogma, they always rejected them, always. That is why I no longer do it.

No worse than you claiming that everything the Left post is garbage and lies. Sounds to me as if when others play by your rules you claim foul.

Typical response from the right. This is precisely why I never provide sources, links to right-wingers when they request them. They always do the same thing. Always. Never an exception. Never.

You're right on that assertion. Though I would say the same is true for every Conservative I have ever responded to. It is not unique to the "liberal" mindset. That being said...I'm a Liberal and I find myself figuratively "tarred and feathered" whenever I attempt to smash the myth of a Surplus under the Clinton Administration. Even though my source links are ALWAYS the Treasury Department's own website. *sigh* I find that both sides tend to be myopic and refuse to be rational at all. Political Rhetoric is the ONLY source that 99% of the populous finds credible.

{Political Rhetoric is the ONLY source that 99% of the populous finds credible.}

Yes. And data and statistics can be cherry-picked and manipulated. Therefore, I think that what we are all really talking about is values. And people will not discuss those in a reasonable and mature way. They hide under the numerology and talking points.

"They hide under the numerology and talking points."

Numerology? Not since holy-saint-reagan-the-mad, but that was kept in the basement along with the astrologer.

"Numerology is any study of the purported divine, mystical or other special relationship between a count or measurement and observed or perceived events".

As for the talking points, yes, right-wing-corporate-fascist-party Faux Noise channel Herr rupert goebbels talking points and b.s p.r spin propaganda of and for the 1% new feudal corporate-fascist-masters.

Then, let's do the same to the unions! Yep! Eliminate using the money confiscated by union agitators and thugs who use it to promote and support Left-winger politicians.

SCOTUS is "Allegedly" impartial, but this court is so partisan, there should be a way to impeach a judge, what Scalia did is unforgivable and insane. He is not fit to sit on the bench.

tThe repugs court did stopped the unions

I'll drink to that

Scott Walker was a brave man, and many are very glad he stuck it out.

A, men !

Absolutely! Bring "the death penalty" to these so-called "corporate-people"!

yep you are so right
But he is not a servant of the people
you cannot make a statement "to divide and conquer"
using WAR statements
thanks for your opinion take it else where

Actually, I would not mind seeing Union money taken out of the Political Landscape as much as corporate money. I am on board with both of those notions.

Yes, most money should be taken out. Lobbyists get by with saying that they are "educating" the Congressmen.

I have never believed the court was impartial! No one of convictions can be 'impartial'; but being CROOKED is something else again. Bertolt Brecht put it this way: "A man who does not know the truth is just an idiot but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a CROOK!!!!" A 'crook' posts on Current from time to time. He is known to all. And to all, he is known as a crook!

NOT analogous!

No one has ever said that unions were 'people'!

Crooks and liars have said that corporations were people; of course, they are not!

What HAS been said is that real people who work for a living have rights. Some of those rights were enumerated in the Bill of Rights for a start! Read it and learn!

Earilier --when King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta he was not declaring that mere abstractions, mere concepts had personhood! The Magna Carta --rather --declared that the rights of LIVING, BREATHING PERSONS were not to be arbitrarily abrogated by the crown.

In fact, there is absolutely NO PRECEDENT for corporate personhood to be found in any western intellectual or philosophical tradition and that is the case since Plato.

Face it --a crooked court pulled 'corporate personhood' out of its sorry ass because they are OWNED! Another word that accurately describes the current high court is: WHORE!

Thanks msii! IF corporations were people, DUPONT should have been put to death for BHOPAL! And EXXON should have been sued out of existence for the Exxon Valdez disaster.

Those disasters occurred because corporations are, in fact, PRIVILEGED in ways that persons can never, ever be! That's what proves that CORPORATE PERSONHOOD is a callous, calculated and deliberate BIG LIE by fascists seeking to impose a fascist state upon the real, living, breathing people of the United States.

Hell --U.S. corporations LEECH upon the nation. They bank their money offshore. Ergo: NONE of it 'trickles down'! It's one of several reasons that every recession/depression since H. Hoover's Great Depression has occurred during a GOP regime.

Unions in themselves are an abstract entity or an organization. Unions support Left-winger politicians, using funds that they confiscate from those who do not want to pay the extortion money but have to in order to work. Unless it is a state that supports liberty with Right-to-Work laws, of course.

"What HAS been said is that real people who work for a living have rights. Some of those rights were enumerated in the Bill of Rights for a start!"

Yes, they have them. And they do not include the malevolent socialism.

Absolutely! I couldn't agree more strongly in ever singe point you make!

"corporate persons" in themselves are abstract (FALSE) entities. corporate-fascists support right-winger politicians, using funds that they fail to pay in lawful taxes, that they hide in their off-shore accounts like mittens rMoney.

Absolutely 100% correct, and well said!

scott walker is a cowardly fascist, owned and operated by the kohks for and by the 1%.

BEEP! Unions now have to have members approve political donations. Corporations do not have to get stockholder approval for political donations.

He's paid to stick it out.

{Unions now have to have members approve political donations.}

Yes, after decades of abuse.

two thumbs up
thanks for your words they are spoken well

Abuse? So are you against ALL lobbying, or only when workers join together and pool their money to do it?

Don't bother to answer. Experience has taught there is little logic but a lot of partisan parroting.

Ooooooo, the boo birds don't like facts. I am so hurt. NOT.

There should be some limits. What do you think?

The right only opposes 'lobbying' when it is done by anyone else but themselves!

Yep. They seem to have the same notions about free speech and freedom in general too.

Not true.

this comeing from a person that has already told lies? Amazeing

Truth!

Absolutely 100% correct!

[gasp]

You're from the 80s! [makes sign of the cross]

PERSONAL ATTACK! WAAAAAAAAH!!!

flag her, flag her!

:) It's "revealing".

Thanks, Leen61 for posting, great article.

Another federal court decision that quickly followed Citizens United tied these threads together and unleashed 2012’s super PACS, in which former aids to various presidential candidates (mostly on the GOP side of the aisle) created these groups, started taking multi-million-dollar donations, and used the money for ads backing their ex-bosses.

Exactly the point! This is what happened in Wisconsin, Scott Walker won nothing. It was bought and paid for. I believe the reason they want the White House is power and control of the military, and once they get their hands on the military, all hell will break loose. History is repeating itself people, don't forget what happened in Nazi Germany. We've lost our democracy, date 06/25/2012, what are we going to do about it, whatever we decide to do we must stand as one, divided we fall, together we're strong. Remember what Scott Walker said divide and conquer, that's what they want. POWER!

November 2012

you are so right
what is good for the nation together is not good for Bain capital
remember we fought 20 years to break up AT&T and they are back as a conglomerate

Very good points, llip, and I totally agree.

That's correct, cmc101.

The people must declare this court illegitimate and expose the corporate influence on the "corporate five".

Truth! Well said!

Absolutely 100% correct! And the "founding father's" are spinning in their tombs!

cheers,
These supreme traitors responsible for this would do well to remember what happened to Mussolini!

May that day come quick!

check out Iowa and Missouri judges are already in placed

Agree!

"do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption".

The great masses of sane non-corporate-owned people beg to disagree...

Those Montana laws were enacted BECAUSE there was corruption. It's ALREADY been proven..IN MONTANA! The SCOTUS doesn't give one whit about corruption.

we need to pt posters up where ever they go on weekends
maybe use of a drone or model remote battery power blimp polling a poster

Just words....justices no longer bother citing case law and/or precedent. Since SCALY, they believe that they can just string legalistic sounding words together! One recalls the Wizard of Oz ---the master of big words and bullshit.

Don't look behind the curtain, you'll see the corporate-fascists pulling the strings, and with their hands up the "justices" asses!

What Kennedy conveniently omitted was corporate support of politicians in general. Of course, with Citizens-United corporations won't have to bother laundering their payoffs anymore. Thanks to SCOTUS, the U.S. can now boast of being home to the very best politicians money can buy.

I agree
GOP slogan
we will beat you with your own money it cost us nothing your paying for it

"U.S. can now boast of being home to the very best politicians money can buy."

It's more of the "exceptionalism" the right-wing-corporate-fascists are always preaching about!

Thanks for posting Leen61

I had to. I don't think anything says it better in regards to where this country is going.

That says it all, and Hopefully we can do something about it in November. Sorry about my bad grammar earlier, got to get new glasses I guess, good excuse right, lol!

I hope this ship can be righted but it will take the people saying "we've had enough." No problem re: bad grammar. :)

Washington sinks the people sink.

That's the sad but true, llip.

together we stand divided we fall

Agreed! 100%

Nice picture, I feel like I'm drowning already. And of course the life preservers have been eliminated to balance the budget.