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A monumental victory for those who already dominate politics...
Linked to groups: Democracy for GA's 3rd, Blogs United, Stockbridge Progressives, Jim Nichols for GA State House, Henry County for Democracy
...there is no way to escape the fact that corporations are creations of the government. If the government can't limit what corporations can spend on political campaigns then it change the rules on the economics of being a corporation.The government can take away the privilege of limited liability for shareholders. In other words, if a corporation damages individuals or communities (as in tobacco or asbestos companies) then all of its shareholders are fully liable to the full extent of their individual assets until the damages are paid off. A corporate bankruptcy does not get anyone off the hook. Corporations without limited liability can get to spend however many billions they want on political campaigns.Then Congress can make a special category of limited liability corporations. These corporations will voluntarily agree to give up their political rights in exchange for the privilege of limited liability for shareholders.This perfectly complies with the Supreme Court ruling -- corporations have all political rights of individuals. They only surrender these rights if they choose to get the privilege of limited liability.
I also pulled some other quotes about the ruling at my regular Jim Nichols blog
DFA Progressive Values group name change to Empathy Cafe.
Linked to groups: Oakland DFA Meetup, DFA at Netroots Nation (formerly YearlyKos) July 17-20, Blog For America, DFALA, Michigan Democracy for America
Greetings
The DFA What are Progressive Values? group
has not had much activity for some time. I wanted to let you know I've just
changed the group name to Empathy Cafe.
http://democracyforamerica.com/groups/2285-empathy-cafe
From my work of interviewing people about
progressive values I've come to see empathy as a core progressive value. It's
also the value that Obama ran on. See this compilation video I made from Obama's
speeches on empathy.
http://progressivespirit.com/Empathy/Obama/ObamaOnEmpathy.htm
So with that in mind I've been refocusing my work
on supporting Obama's call for standing in each other's shoes. Below is
some of the work we've been doing. More to come shortly.
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I wanted to let you know the video of the June 25th Empathy Healthcare Cafe is now online. I've created a 10 minute overview video of the Cafe. If you want to see more detail, there are 13 other clips of the event on Youtube as well. Please do forward the link to anyone that may be interested in viewing it. The overview video is located here:
Empathy Healthcare Cafe - Overview (1 of 13)
You can see full event videos here.
http://progressivespirit.com/Empathy/Projects/Empathy-Cafe/6-25-2009.htm
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I'm still getting this campaign up and running...
Linked to groups: Georgia for Democracy, Blog For America, Blogs United, Democracy for GA's 3rd, Stockbridge Progressives
I'm looking for a volunteer to head up my DFA campaign group to keep people informed on the site about our efforts to get a DFA activist elected to the Gold Dome.
For now you can follow my personal blog: www.JimNichols4.com
We are working to get the website up soon: www.JimN2010.com
Any questions, comments, contributions... JimN2010@gmail.com or 770 312 6736
Please tell your networks we have a progressive blogger running for GA State House!
Thanks!
Jim
Bill Kristol admits the obvious on health care
Linked to groups: Democracy for GA's 3rd, Henry County for Democracy, Blogs United, Stockbridge Progressives
I posted on my blog about Kristol's statement on Jon Stewart...
Jim in 2010? Not without your help!
Linked to groups: DFA Atlanta Alumni Crew, College Park DFA, Peachtree City DFA, Forest Park DFA, Stockbridge Progressives
Every day I go in to my job at UPS where I load trucks. I watch my co-workers show up to work at 3:45am and work hard for the next 4 hours. From there they go on to second jobs, schools, or home to try and raise their kids the best they can. They are doing their best to play by the rules, yet they continue to fall farther behind and they know it.
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All i'm going to say is...
Linked to groups: Blog For America, Democracy for GA's 3rd, Blogs United, Henry County for Democracy
Running for office is stressful...
Jim Nichols for State House... social media... and what people want to see on a website
Linked to groups: Democracy for GA's 3rd, Democracy for America - Georgia Chapter, DFA Atlanta Alumni Crew, Blogs United, Blog For America
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Victory for Europe's centre-right
Linked to groups: Blog For America, Blogs United, Stockbridge Progressives
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Obama is a Socialist...
Linked to groups: Blog For America, Stockbridge Progressives, Blogs United
This post was on the fly. I just posted (MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SAME MINDSET) I thought it might be good to reflect on some of the "Obama is a socialist" meme that is very "in" on conservative talk shows and tv.
David Boaz from CATO write on how Obama isn't a socialist...
Is Barack Obama a socialist? Not really. Is George W. Bush a free marketer? Not hardly. In fact, right now they both seem to be pursuing policies that are neither socialist nor laissez-faire but rather corporatist.
I've posted on this before, Obama is not the problem... underfunded government and a heath care crisis are... part deux and French vs. American Market systems... as well as many other times. But this meme is still very popular....
Many of the people I talk to who are worried about Obama talk about how they look back and want the economy they knew when they were younger, or that their Parents, or Grandparents had. Keep in mind, taxes were higher, government intervention in the economy was higher, unions were stronger, protectionisms on and on down the line.
Government intervention in the economy? How about the GI Bill of Rights that sent a generation of unemployed young men to get their college degree's. It almost single handedly created the middle class... (the government stimulus spending plan called World War II didn't hurt either... nor did the Marshall Plan...)
Its also based around a fundamental misunderstanding of what real world capitalism--rather than some Philosopher's conception of it--is. As i've noted many times before.
Longing for the days of freewheeling entrepreneurship that never existed is not an argument that has any validity when it comes to a policy debate rather than some Ivory Tower debate in some philosophy department detached from the real world concerns of working people.
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Thank you DFA....
Linked to groups: Blog For America, DFA Atlanta Alumni Crew, DFA Night School, DFA Campaign Academy Alumni, Blogs United
I don't know what i'm doing here. Intentional obfusication of observation, pedantic self-servering diatribes. Or just something to kill time extending to the outside the internal rumblings of the inside, something to scream out loud and clear across the land that I can't spell and have no trouble thinking all at the same time (its a tough job). And maybe i'm here cause i'm too lazy to write in my journal, too infuriating (to others) to email friends on those random things that hit me at 1:13 in the morning, and too self-obsessed to sing sonic youth songs over and over to myself and not share with the group. This may turn into an utterly embarassing failure to create something interesting (once again) but as Woody Allen said "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
"If I start describing what I want to do, i'll end up not seeing the point in doing it." Blogging on Politics, Music, and culture...
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