for decades now. civil con valley. don t forget our efforts to get the 28th amendment passed and get money out of politics. that completes the campaign. during the depression, this land is your land and this land is my land, from california to the new york island, from the redwood forests, to the gulf stream waters, this land was made for you and me. and woody, we re coming to fix this land and fix it for all of us together. we ll be right back. what makes scottrade your smartphone s most powerful trading app ? total access - to everything. from idea to research to trade. including financials, indicators
primaries. have you seen a line to vote against on a ballot? i didn t think so. we often vote for the lesser of two evils, but it s still evil. then there s washington s revolving door. it it gives special interest the power to influence what laws are written. election cycles are media gold. billions are spent on ads. $3 357b9 billion inning a ga gat revenues. double that this year with $7 billion forecast. politics depend og funding from private interests who are rarely aligned with the voter s interests. the green curtain of money has d.c. in a strangle hold. it s why we don t have real debate on fixing banking, health, education, energy, defense, or trade. but there is a way to fix it. first, we need to get a 28th amendment to get money out.
legislation, and we know legislation gets done, just give them the money directly. money finds way. it s like life in jurassic park. i think the american people should lay down and let it trickle down all over them. if they don t like it, change the constitution. thomas jefferson really wanted our constitution re-written every generation. they didn t know about the internet or cloning or drunk elderly people driving in the wrong lane. and finally, i m thinking more like a 28th amendment to end that, but we re on a different page. different pages. you can put that in the end of ours. finally, the 1% doing their patriotic duty this holiday season. jeff, what are they doing for america? even though the 1% has been attacked by the, oh, i can t provide for my family crowd and the poverty-controlled media, they re out there spending like never before, buying $88 million
not just rising up, but you have to vote. you have to say that, you know, what you voted for isn t enough. what you did is what matters to me. and get more people engaged in the process at a time when people seem so disengaged. well, i think one of the things you have to do is develop role models in our society, from the president on down, to major corporate and nonprofit leaders, faith community leaders, that send this message out that our political system is too much tied to money and the money impacts people s lives, by increasing the deficit, it s one of the reasons it s gone up. it is not an easy thing to do, but the messaging is pretty much in our society today, well, that s just the way it is, and there s nothing you can do about it. so somehow, we have to change the culture to get people to believe that it impacts them. well, i would argue that compared to last august, we now have 13 different constitutional amendments proposed for the 28th amendment. we have millions of do
we re talking about in the lead. and the footnote makes following point. it says, if a corporation wants to assert a first amendment right of expression in an election, it must be willing to accept the responsibility of getting sued. do you agree with that? and where do we stand in the reconciliation of the reciprocity of corporations as people being forced to assume the liabilities? well, i think that the question of whether corporations are treated as people, under the united states constitution, has to be separated from the question whether we govern corporations and the treatment of them as people under statutes. the clean air act aims corporations as persons so we can hold them accountable when they violate the clean air act. the contract laws we have throughout the country enable corporations to engage and do business via contracts, via the treatment of being people in contract terms. but in this case, 1789 statutes, a federal statute, the question really is, are corporations