I like many others am really angered by the Supreme Court's ruling today that destroys the dollar limits on the amount of money corporations can put into political campaigns. Back in business school I argued with my yuppie colleagues over the idea that corporations should be treated as individual people. Logically it makes no sense to ignore the math and treat two or more people like they are somehow one person. Today that logical fallacy cost our nation greatly because corporations will now be able to almost completely drown out the voices of individual voters.
Corporations are not people no matter how you slice it, they are organizations of people. No one person has complete access to the amounts of money a corporation does. Even Bill Gates couldn't free up the amounts of money a large corporation can on his own. No one person can do 5 or 5 million completely separate things at once. Even the most proficient multi-tasker couldn't call the president, the congress, and the voters at the same exact time, while also fundraising for other political candidates and giving speeches at a rally somewhere. America has really sold itself into economic slavery with this one. Corporations are "super people" in a sense, and now just got the ability to fund any politician they want unlimitedly. When people look back at the fall of the American republic, this day will be marked as the "event horizon" of its demise.
That's my take on this whole mess.
You can read more about it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/politics/22scotus.html
Aurora
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