Matt Bors for July 18, 2012

Hello Neighbors,In a recent Supreme Court decision- if I clearly understood the decision- Unions were told they could no long use monies collected from rank and file for political causes without the express permission of the individual member. Yet, the Citizens United ruling permits corporations to use monies collected through shareholders and the work of employees whether or not the individual shareholder or employee wants the corporation to support a particular candidate. I agree with SCOTUS on the union decision, but strongly disagree with Citizens United. In fact, the political ads funded by these newly strengthened super pacs are dividing citizens, not unifying them, more and more each the week. Money from Corporations and Unions isn’t speech. Letters, emails, and conversations are speech. Speak up America. WRITE and STAMP a letter to your elected officials and party leadership(national and state)with thoughtful and respectful expressions of your opinions and how you want legislatures to vote. If that doesn’t work, we’ll have to use the internet to created referendums they cannot legally ignore. We can also boycott corporations.Respectfully,C

If someone dies as a result of negligence of a corperation, how do you arrest a corperation?

The idea that “corporations are people” is ensconced in the United States Code, although the term is “Person” not people.

26 United States Code 7701 – Definitions(a) When used in this title, where not otherwise distinctly expressed or manifestly incompatible with the intent thereof—(1) PersonThe term “person” shall be construed to mean and include an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, association, company or corporation.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7701

Matt needs some new “happy smoke”!

All the CEOs? The president? The employees? How does it work?

I own a corporation and I assure you that it’s not a person.

Hey, corporations are people, my friend! — Willard Romney, early in the primaries.

“LLC” is unto itself an interesting acronym, as it means “Limited LIABILITY Corporation”, as in, “we screw up, and pass the buck”. And yes SCOTUS in the past HAS limited unions, while NOT limiting corporations. Shareholder letters are now quite interesting as the bottom line on proxy is “don’t bother, because the board will do what IT wants!”.

Owning an oil company is a license to print money. And being a corporation is a license to drive 88.6% of Congress, and 99.9% of all Republican administration decisions, regulations, Executive Orders, and “signing statements”.

How about reinstate the equal time for each candidate or ballot measure and take big money out of buying so much advertising?-—It once was that way.

Bain Capital should have been aborted.

“Corporations are people, my friend. I am a corporation”

“Try to quit a union and watch what happens to you.”Ummmmmm, Nothing? How much time have you spent as part of a union?

So what’s the problem? If you don’t like the policies of the corporation you own stock in, sell your stock — if you don’t like the policies of the union you belong to, get a different job. Nobody is stopping you.

I’ve got news for you – corporations are indeed people. Anyone who says otherwise is dangerously ignoring the facts and is being brainwashed by the borderline-Socialist politicians.http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303740704577524823306803692.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

“I will believe that corporations are people when they execute one in Texas”

One of the primary reasons for incorporation is the fact that the corporation is immortal. People may die (or go to prison) but the corporation goes on and on.

But isn’t there a free market of employment?

Matt Bors is a national treasure.

In Texas the common people call the “right to work” law the “right to starve” law. It really just means there is no such thing as a closed shop.