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Court decision opens floodgates for corporate political spending - Kenneth P. Vogel - POLITICO.com

The Supreme Court on Thursday opened wide new avenues for big-moneyed interests to pour money into politics in a decision that could have a major influence on the 2010 midterm elections and President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.

The long-awaited 5-4 decision overruled all or parts of two prior rulings by the court that allowed governments to restrict corporations and unions from spending their general funds on ads expressly urging a candidate’s election or defeat. But the decision upheld disclosure requirements for groups like the one that brought the case.
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My vote was worth next to nothing before this happened... now its officially worth nothing.
 
Wow. 2012 is going to be a huge firefight.... or more the 2008 election was the firefight, and 2012 is going to be nuclear war.
 
hopefully the world really ends in 2012.. because i cant put up with much more
 
Like I've said before, this wouldn't even be a problem if 99% of Americans weren't raging idiots who vote based on name recognition.
 
say goodbye to america fellas, cause we are fucking DONE FOR! im going back to school so i can get a working visa in another country easier. i really am moving to germany by 2012.
 
Government of, by and for the corporations.

Corporate fascism is coming. My heart grieves for America.
 
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actually now that i think about it, what regulations were set in place before this ruling? any regulations at all?
 
kelsodeez said:
actually now that i think about it, what regulations were set in place before this ruling? any regulations at all?
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They have to disclose who they fund. I dont think your average american will even look at the disclosure list.

EDIT: This could be a good think. Since they must disclose, they have no incentive to continually hide their funding as they did under the mccain/feingold act (to avoid a spending cap) . . . . hmm but there is ALWAYS an incentive to hide funding from the people of this country.

Now ill have to read up and find out if this law somehow prevents them from hiding the funds.
 
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Magana559 said:
lol you guys drown in a glass of water.
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The issue here this gives the UAW a blank check to put whoever they would like in whatever position they would like. Same for the oil companies and the defense industry.

Because most people are so god damn retarded you end up with any of these special intrest groups running ads against a candidate they do not like claiming they eat babies and fuck horses on the full moon and guess what!?!?!? The sheeple will buy it hook line and sinker. Have you ever seen the shit that gets passed off as truth in an email? And how many people believe that completely, well Americans are conditioned to panic/cheer/cry/yell at anything that shows up on t.v.
 
I read another article this morning slanted the other way, how this was a great thing because it gives corporations more freedom. I loved the comments at the end saying that since Obama said he would fight against this, he's fighting against the 1st amendment. I'm no Democrat by any means but come on. We're all riding the same bus. This left vs right crap has people so blinded and bitter against the people sitting on the other side of the greyhound that we're going to crash ourselves into a wall.

Ji said it best. It was years and years ago, and he deleted all his posts, but I'll never forget it: "The next civil war won't be north vs south. It will be left vs right."

And as usual, the smart people who can see both sides of the issue will be stuck in the middle.
 
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in my opinion, this wont change things a whole lot. both sides will be fighting themselves. it is going to be a marketing companies dream world though.

i honestly don't think it will be too bad. just think about who would be funding what.

dems usually want stupid high taxes to pay for the poor/stupid/lazy. i can't think of a company that would want higher taxes. corporations don't really care either way. poor people don't contribute to campaigns, so their politicians wont have as much political swing.

gop wants to lower taxes and fend for the wealthy. GOP will be funded by corporations to lower taxes, rich voters who actually contribute, and other people who want to keep their money.
 
DarkHand said:
And as usual, the smart people who can see both sides of the issue will be stuck in the middle.
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actually, the smart ones will be getting the fuck out.

also:

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Getting the fuck out and going where? I don't see any other country that has it as good as us even now.
 
:werd: :withstupid:

where is this "utopia" that are you planning on running to, that isnt already more fucked up than we are here???
 
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