People living in California will tell
you that it is not the initial earthquake that worries them the most, but
rather it is the enduring aftershocks that continue to rip apart their lives as
they try to rebuild. The same can be
said of the Supreme Court’s decision to allow corporations unlimited power to
sway politics.
The Citizens United Decision (a 5-4
decision in January of 2010) allows all corporations to spend unlimited sums of
money for political purposes, further strengthening the influence of big
corporations over our government. While
this corruption of politics expands the already cavernous void between our
nation’s government and the people that it is supposed to represent, the
after-effects of the rampant spending for candidates has to raise questions to
whose allegiance are the campaigners really fighting for? Abraham Lincoln famously spread the idea that
our government must be “of the people, by the people, for the people”—but that
is not how the everyday, hard-working American feels. The average American is angry. The average American feels down-trodden,
realizing that the hard work they put in everyday has been continually going
towards an ever-growing powerful corporate community that only seeks to deepen
their pockets and flex their powerful muscles of influence over politicians
that work for their interests.
We have seen the effects of corporate
America’s influence over our nation’s governance. Jobs continue to sail away to other countries
as unemployment rates soar! Unregulated
corporations swindled Americans into taking on debts for possessions that they
could not afford! And now corporations
can wage unlimited support to candidates to do their bidding—without consent of
the workers that keep the corporations alive and running?!
Corporate America cannot be allowed to
continue their power over the way our nation governs itself!
Corporate America does not act for the
people!
Corporations are not the people of America!
The politics of wealth and greed that
has run this nation into the Great Recession, the greediness that seeks only to
expand the already expansive piggybanks of board members and CEO’s . The greediness that is holding down the workers that
toil and break their backs to get a small sliver of the pie to make ends
meet—this is not the dream that was to be America! This nation was meant to be a land where a
person works for their Fair Share, with a government that protects and serves
them. Not a government that lays in the
bed of self-interest, side-by-side with big corporations, whose aim is only to
exploit everyone and everything for their own gain!
The workers must have their own voices!
The people of this nation must be heard!
We must unite together and march! March
to the polls and demand a greater America, an America for a better future!
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