JB70 wrote: I numbered them so I can reply to each.
1] They are gambling with your money.
2] Since they are to big to fail taxpayers must bail them out if they lose money.
3] Socialism for the mega wealthy.
1] 1st, The "They" has no antecedent, the word it is standing for. 2nd, If you meant the banksters who caused the GFC/2008 or the mega rich, in neither case are they gambling with my money. And not with most Americans' money.
2] I suppose that bailing out the banks in 2008 &9 was necessary. What was not necessary was for Obama to not throw any of the guilty people in prison; and worse to not bail out the innocent victims of the fraud. This seriously damaged the US economy by destroying financial wealth if not actual real wealth.
3] Yes, it was socialism for the rich, but we live in an Oligarchy. If you don't like it overturn several USSC decisions that gave rights to corps that the Founders specifically denied them.
. . . It was all based on thinking that the 14th Amendment didn't mean "human persons"when it said "no person shall". They think they also meant corporate persons. FYI-- corporations were made persons by 1600 just so they could sue and be sued for payments of debts. Not to let them make campaign contributions. When I was a kid in the 50s this was specifically against the law in every state and at the Federal level, too.
. . . According to Thom Hartman this was decided in the 1880s IIRC the date. The USSC ruled that the drafters of the 14th Amend. meant "human persons" only. However, a corrupt court clerk who was also a railroad tycoon, made a cover page that said that the court had said the opposite. And, later courts used that cover page as the decision and then affirmed the precedent when it was shown the error. The court should have overturned the precedent because it was aggressively wrongly decided and had no long standing in US or English common law. And, yet again the activist justices on the court have given corps all the rights of humans except the right to vote and to hold public office. Also to marry. They even can have a religion and be exempt from following the law because of their religion. Do corps have souls? No.! So, how can they have a religion?
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