The Supreme Court decision in favor of Citizens United gave corporations the status of personhood and skewed democratic process by removing corporate limits to financial contributions in political campaigns. Profit-seeking industries financially seduce our nation’s decision-makers and it is all legal.
But here is a movement to restore sanity to the legislative process and turn the tide on greed so we can prioritize social and climate justice issues in the halls of government. Follow this link and add your voice to this vital campaign to overturn Citizens United.
http://www.leftaction.com/action/tell-congress-overturn-citizens-united
This from my blog . . . http://cartoonmick.wordpress.com/about/
This is a fictional tale and any relation to persons living today is purely coincidental.
THE FINAL CHAPTER
Prince Tony said climate change was “crap”, and he firmly believed any changes in Earth’s climate were not caused by human activity.
He was not concerned in our survival on Earth, as our immediate future did not appear to be at risk.
But he was interested in his own survival and immediate future at the helm of his powerful realm.
For him to survive, he must keep his “Powerful Big Business” friends happy by allowing them to continue polluting at a minimum cost to themselves.
He devised a fiendish plan, a solution for the happiness of his “Powerful Big Business” friends.
He would pay them to pollute.
Their continued pollution would not affect the earth’s climate, contrary to the opinions of the climate scientists who had not yet been arrested and imprisoned.
As the years went by, Prince Tony found it harder to breathe, but he was not worried, as all around him had similar problems.
The food shortages had not troubled him either, for there was enough left to feed those who had not yet drowned in the rising oceans.
He had authorised his “Powerful Big Business” friends to cut down and burn as many trees as they wished, regardless of the naysayers and increasing sand storms.
His “Powerful Big Business” friends suggested he not alarm himself over the eastern skies which became darker each day, as this was a minimal risk factor and would one day disappear.
Yet the dark clouds grew, the sun was rarely seen and people died from the cold whilst others starved to death.
Undeterred, Prince Tony, in his infinite wisdom, increased the taxes to raise more money to pay for his food and warmth.
But no monies came, there were no people left, no “Powerful Big Business”, for all had perished in the climate change which he believed was not of mankind’s making.
. . . . and as the dark clouds sank slowly in the west, our lonely Prince Tony finally realized that climate change was not “crap”, it was his plan which was “crap”.
A Grim Fable that may be all too real!–H