What would our country be like if politicians.......

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Industries are not citizens and should have no say in our Govt.

But corporations are people. So you kinda contradict there.

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what good are the giant brains we have in office doing us know? I guess I am hoping that a different breed of person would step forward.

One certainly has:

Look! No giant brain!

Come on, it took her 8 years (or something like that) to get one of the easiest degrees out there, journalism, and after that she couldn't name 1 media publication or 1 SCOTUS decision, not even the Heller decision (which just came down a couple months b4 the CC interview) and she's the biggest gun nut almost in Washington.

Everyone can have a bad day.

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But corporations are people. So you kinda contradict there.

Corporations are not people. They are run by people, but in the interest of making money. Not in the interest of what is actually good for our country, or you and me.

I think a big part of our problems now are that our country is run like a business.

Dom

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I think a big part of our problems now are that our country is run like a business.

you mean it's NOT run like a business (or a household)

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oh its run like a business. A bad business.

Dom

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Industries are not citizens and should have no say in our Govt.

But corporations are people. So you kinda contradict there.

You don't undestand the differences between a corporation and an industry.

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