Corporations Finally Get into the Political Fray

After years of watching their interests go unheeded by Washington, corporations will finally have their say in the political arena. The Supreme Court decision last month giving corporations the full personhood they have so long deserved has once and for all eliminated those pesky campaign finance limits that have given the people far too much say in political decision in America. Now corporations can have their voice heard loud and clear, untethered by the will of the people and their silly notions of the common good. Should their really be limits on the interest rates banks can charge for loans or the fees they collect? Should insurance companies really have to insure high risk clients or those already sick? Why should pharmaceutical companies have to go through the onerous process of making sure their drugs are safe when that can be figured out after their product goes to market? Should cigarette and chemical companies really be limited by silly concerns about their safety, when it cuts into their profits? And why should corporations have to waste all that money on lobbying when they can simply buy the politicans that will best reflect their interests? The benevolent society of American corporations and the wealthy, aka the Chamber of Commerce, has certainly been asking these questions for years and are now ready to put their wallets where their mouth is, spending as much money as they can withdraw from their sheltered offshore accounts to make sure years of government interference in their profit-seeking behavior come to an end once and for all: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-chamber9-2010mar09,0,4230154,full.story. Let freedom ring!