Friday, August 12, 2011

King Willard?

“. . .Mitt Romney told an Iowa crowd . . . .that the U.S. government shouldn't raise taxes because ‘corporations are people’ too. From Talking Points Memo:
    Responding to a question from an audience member as to why Social Security should be included in deficit talks when it doesn't add to the deficit, Romney drifted into a defense of corporate rights.
    ‘Corporations are people, my friend,’ he said. ‘Of course they are.’
    After receiving jeers from the audience over the quote, he elaborated: ‘Everything corporations earn goes to people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings, my friend.’ In some respects, corporations are treated as individuals, like when it comes to spending huge sums of money on elections and in matters of free speech. When it's convenient, in other words.” Romney: "Corporations are people" in Arkansas Times Blog
“Today there are, . . .insidious, enslaving forces at work in America.  Today's emerging tyranny emanates from a New King, from a nonliving power center composed at its core of monolithic corporate entities encased and protected by endless layers of governmental bureaucracies. The primary strategy of the New King is to convert all rights, all human energy, all goals and, at last, all humans into fungible commodities, for the New King exists solely for commerce and its life's blood, its green blood, its money--and its singular mission is profit. The New King's principal means of control is the media that sells us the myths of freedom, that,  when we doubt, reassures us we are free, and that programs us and our children to accept the notion that all human function, all human desires, indeed, even immortality itself can, at last, be satisfied at he marketplace.”  Gerry Spence in From Freedom to Slavery

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