The “Citizens United” decision of the U.S. Supreme Court has all kinds of unanticipated consequences. Before 2010 companies were forbidden from using corporate money to campaign for political candidates. Now companies are free to do that.
According to an article by Steven Greenhouse in the Oct. 27 issue of the New York Times, companies are now sending letters to their employees telling them how to vote. Cintas and Georgia Pacific are just two of many corporations doing this, and almost all of them are telling their employees to vote for Romney.
Is this intimidation? What do you think?
Companies should not have any right to tell employees how to vote. Some even try to intimidate them.
ReplyDeleteThis is very sad to see, nonetheless. Essentially, corporate America is able to "buy" elections from here on in. That leads me to believe power will continue to concentrate within the 1% of America's wealthiest.
ReplyDeleteUntil we can restore the middle class, stop wages from falling, and create jobs which can support a family... we are in trouble.
What we need is a grass roots effort to have a constitution amendment to overturn the citizens united decision. Problem is that we need a congress to start the ball rolling. So everyone needs to put pressure on them now.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if we could get referendums on the ballot we could let them know that the people are serious about this. Otherwise we have a plutocracy running this country.