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For me, the difference is that people don't have to stay in AARP, unions or groups whose policies they oppose, but they don't have the same choice when it comes to the workplace. Quitting AARP isn't the same as quitting your job and losing everything that goes with it.

You are correct on AARP and PAC's, but unions are no different than corporations in this manner. Also.... you DO have the choice to leave the company if you do not like their positions. That doesn't mean you are entitled to another job elsewhere by any means, but you do have the choice.

 

[Taichiliberal]

Originally Posted by Taichiliberal
Which is why for the last century you've had laws similar to McCain-Feingold...to try and curtail such as to NOT have over-whelming advantage over the individual citizen.

The Citizen's United decision essentially takes the leash of corporations AND unions. That's why it's a BAD decision.

I do not disagree with your last couple of sentences. I just disagree with those who pretend that somehow it is just the corporations that this applies to. you know... the .... 'corporations is da evilllz' crowd.

Well, for YEARS I've heard the conservative punditry and press tell me how the Unions were the big, bad boy on the block....yet the corporations were just misunderstood business folk just trying to get through the day (that they had a shitload MORE money to futz around with just didn't ring with the conservatives. My thing has always been that two wrongs don't make a right...but essentially some folk on SCOTUS think otherwise.