With Citizens United, the conservative Supreme Court expanded corporate political power by ruling that corporations could spend unlimited amounts of unregulated money to buy elections. However, last month, that same conservative Supreme Court restricted the power of organized labor by placing new requirements on how unions can spend money on political activity. According to a new ruling, unions must get opt-in permission from workers who are required to pay dues, but choose not to join the union, before those nonmember dues can be used for political purposes. This ruling overturned well-settled precedent, and gave anti-labor forces a victory well beyond what they were even seeking in the case before the court. Corporations and unions should face the same restrictions on using organizational money for political purposes. Tell Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid it's time for legislation requiring that corporations receive opt-in permission from shareholders before company funds can be used for political purposes.

You tell them no sending the " Gift Cards" and they still send them anyway and your account is debited for 29.95 or so. Something "can" be done to stop this.

Financial fraud, manipulation and malfeasance has become the standard operating procedure of the industry. A recent industry survey showed that more than 33% admitted that they have and will commit fraud to generate their personal income. As regulations get more complex, the regulators, SEC, CTFC, Fed simply cannot keep up with the gaming of the regulations by industry participants. I and many others have lost thousands with MFC Global and now Peregrine. Not a single banker or broker or executive has gone to jail. The industry simply pays a fine, that in comparison to their profits is minimal. It is time for real penalties to stop this fraud.

Today, I went to Team USA, to "like" it, and make a donation. How supprised I was to find the letters, BP not only was in the title, but was the first name in the title. I actually appreciate this corp for supporting our team and thank BP and all contributors, BUT to "name" our team BP is a travisty. A. This is a British corp, and B. this corp. caused the greatest menmade disaster t

I am concerned about your lack of transparancy on your financial holdings especially those overseas.

As FDR did in the Great depression, the president needs to sign a mortitorium to stop all evictions and if any fraud or broken "chains of title" have been found force the banks,Freddie mac,Fannie mae,fha and any envolved to work with the former homeowner to restore this real property (land ) into the hands of American people not foriegn envestors.

It is more than obvious that some in the Big Business do not directly suffer the consequences of their actions. The proof of this began in 2007 when 50% of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, 2 decades old, was dumped on taxpayers. The proof of this is the number of financial settlements on companies like Glaxo and big banks like JP Morgan Chase. Their tactic is to recoup their losses by simply jacking prices of their goods and services until the settlement or fine is paid for by consumers first and taxpayers second. This does not in any way force those who make these fraudulent decisions to suffer the consequences of their actions. But, a petition to pass a law that disallows these businesses to raise their prices or accept tax subsidies until these fines or settlements are paid in full is the only way taxpayers and consumers can put the brakes on this kind of corruption.

Right now, my state is spending millions of dollars to steal companies from your state, while your state is doing the same thing to mine. This bizarre system is called "economic development," and its sole beneficiary is big corporations, which use it to extort further tax breaks from local communities, the state and the nation. And if the corporations play their cards right and wangle enough goodies, they may not have to pay any tax at all, as we have seen in recent years. Unfortunately, no state can afford to unilaterally disarm in this sick game for fear of losing. Meanwhile, the public doesn't seem to realize how much of its funds are being eaten up in this corporate welfare shell game. People tend to believe our public money goes to welfare cheats, unproductive poor people and crack addicts, when the truth is that our tax monies are simply lining the pockets of greedy robber barons -- a half a million to this corporation to build a plant here, and another to that one to do the same over there -- supposedly to gain new jobs that are really just being stolen from neighboring states, while those states are stealing an equal number from us, for a net gain of zero for everybody. There is nothing wrong with local chambers of commerce passing the hat amongst local business communities to attract new businesses, but it is wrong to do it with public funds derived from taxes and fees. We need a national response to this problem, probably a constitutional amendment, but it probably won't happen because our legislators appear to be slaves of the wealthy corporations that are robbing us blind. Please, legislators, prove that statement wrong!

The most effective first step towards reducing the overwhelming influence of money in elections is to prohibit election campaign ads from television, radio, and large, stationary signs such as billboards. Two-thirds of all campaign funds produce TV ads, targeting a "captive" audience. Eliminating those ads will greatly reduce the power of big money, e.g., corporate money.

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I am concerned about Republican Governors owning monied interests in private businesses they are pushing on the people of their state through laws and policies to replace government agencies. For example Rick Scott, Governor of Florida wants all state workers to take urine drug screens from a company that he owns monied interest in. Rick Scott, Govenor of Florida and Jan Brewer, Governor of Arizona also want to privatize prisons. This sets up corruption that is unimaginiable in that people who make laws about who goes to prison are also lining their pockets with taxpayer money supporting those prisons. Also, the more people that are in prison, the more money they make. Could this be why Jan Brewer is so intererested in placing illegal immigrants in prison? This is not free enterprise and this is not democracy. It is a very scarey type of facism and needs to be nipped in the bud now instead of later.

Branded as a “trade deal” by its corporate proponents, the TPP would actually establish new corporate rights and privileges that would include permanent constraints on government regulation. These include new corporate safeguards to ease job offshoring, assert control over natural resources, and severely limit the government's ability to regulate financial services, land use, food safety, natural resources, energy, tobacco, healthcare and more.