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It's like I've said a lot recently. If corporations are people, then why aren't their boards arrested when crimes are committed by them? They have all the benefits (free speech) without the responsibilities. They can do what they want and know that the worst that can happen to them is a fine -so they bake that into their risk calculations
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This is where someone or many on here might say I don't know what I am talking about but this is what I think about this.
I would imagine that corporations who give money to the politicians to get what they want have convinced congress to pass laws that protect the corporations in the same way as congress in protected from having to be bound by the same laws that "WE THE PEOPLE" are bound by.
I am sure that the legal eagles in the halls of "WE THE LOBBYIST" have help craft the rules for corporations to protect the source of their money.
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But the fact is that enough people are being defrauded and there are enough market forces working against them that I think it's a perfectly reasonable idea to set up an agency who's purpose is to protect the PEOPLE instead of pandering to lobbyists
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It sounds right but I have had it with government expanding. That seems to be all they know how to do. If they would just get out of the way in many areas, the economy would come back and the market would weed out many of these corporations.
As for many of the people that have been defrauded, I fear that this is just the first in a long life of them being suprised by life. I think they just don't and won't get it!