15 Ways Bill Clinton’s White House Failed America and the World

[JDPriestly]

57. Because we can have the peace and prosperity and live in a decent society in which

corporations are simply a good way to organize business and not political rulers. That's why. Corporations have been placed on the level of human beings. That's just utterly wrong. Corporations don't cry. They don't bleed. They aren't born. They don't die of heart attacks or from guns or bombs.

Yet in recent years, corporations have been elevated to the level of humans.

It makes the Declaration of Independence into a joke.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. . . . .

http://www.earlyamerica.com/declaration-independence/

Corporations are created by state law, not by a Creator. Corporations do not have unalienable rights. Their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are created by statute, not by virtue of their being born.

The very idea that corporations have the same rights as humans is contradicted by the fundamental laws of our nation and states, yet we have a government that has acquiesced to the Supreme Court's erroneous ruling that corporations have human rights.

And now, we have a president who wants to saddle us with the TPP, which, like our other trade agreements, will impose on us international arbitration courts in which corporations can challenge laws that we as a people enact through our elected representatives.

The Declaration of Independence was written in part to protest similar courts:

He (meaning the English King) has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:

http://www.earlyamerica.com/declaration-independence/

Although thanks to the dot.com boom, the Clinton years were good economically, some of the laws passed during that time planted the seeds of the 2008 crash and the irresponsible policies of our banks. What is more, the NAFTA agreement set up in addition to the courts set up by the WTO and other agreements, the international courts that allow corporations to challenge our government in courts outside of the influence and reach of American citizens.

That's OK in my view if the issues to be decided involved HUMAN rights, dignity or such criminal matters. But the issues to be decided in these international courts that do not answer even indirectly to American voters concern our environmental, labor and economic laws. And corporations have no right to challenge American citizens, humans, with regard to the laws about labor, the environment, health, and our economy. Corporations are not human beings. They have only the legal rights we give them.

That the Clintons, both Yale Law School graduates and Obama, a Harvard Law School graduate cannot understand the danger in agreements that give corporations that kind of power is just beyond me. It is just incomprehensible.

Are they just bought out.

We have the opportunity to hire (elect) a president who seems to understand the difference between a corporation and a human being (even though he isn't a lawyer and has never filed corporation papers for some lifeless pile of money) and that is Bernie Sanders.

And we need to talk about the mistake we made in electing and supporting Bill Clinton in the past. The future of our country depends on this.