Corporate personhood was enshrined into law by the US Supreme Court decision which essentially says that corporations have the same rights as naturally occuring human beings. The difference is that all human beings eventually get old and eventually die. Corporations have the potential to last forever; although it must be noted that many do eventually die or are swallowed up by still bigger corporations. There are some corporations, however, such as the American Red Cross that live on for over 100 years and still exist today.

The State and City of New York are committed to placing 25% of people who go to government programs into some kind of job. The government actually places between 8% and 25% of such people into jobs depending on how you read and interpret the very complicated data. The Problem is that at least 75% of people who apply for help seeking employment for the purpose of getting out of poverty do not get a job or much if any help. This is a complicated set of problems to which programs are focusing on the wrong initial solutions.

Set aside any Obama euphoria you feel. The other important news is that third-party presidential candidates had a miserable showing this year, totaling just over one percent of the grand total with 1.5 million votes nationwide, compared to some 123 million votes for Barack Obama and John McCain.

In highly secret discussions John McCain is seeking feedback on the bold, historically unique idea of conceding the presidential election BEFORE Election Day!

Here are the main discussion points framing the conversations with his closest, long-time supporters, including his wife, but not current campaign staff.

Most people don't know what John McCain's policies are.

He mostly has the reputation of being a "maverick", but how does John McCain really stand on the issues?

Long before the disastrous George W. Bush administration, I had been waiting for profound, systemic changes in our political system. Perversely, I saw the upside of Bush as motivating more Americans to demand political change. And that happened. But the national yearning for change was co-opted by Ron Paul on the right and Barack Obama on the left while John Edwards with the most authentic populist change message fizzled out early.

That means it operates predominantly as an oligarchy but with strong democratic elements. As a result we do not grow-up learning to think and relate democratically. Rather, for the most part we grow-up learning to think and relate in top/down ways: employer/employee; winner/loser; dominant/subordinate; etc. All cultures literally wire the brains of its members, and tend to continuously reinforce its basic modes of thinking and relating. So we tend to come out as mostly hierarchic worker bees re-producing our top/down culture.

Hope mongering has been working much better than experience mongering. Now, the rest of the story….

As befits American culture, politics is all about slick selling to the masses. Hillary Clinton is selling Day-1 help to victims and sufferers. Barack Obama is selling effervescent hope to yes-we-can dreamers. This media hyped horse race is like a fight between diet Coke and diet Pepsi, artificially sweetened candidates devoid of real nourishment.

Americans want a real political leader, a real change agent. Ron Paul has never been a change agent. He is a change-talker. His claim to fame is voting against legislation, not writing bold legislation to produce change that actually became law.

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What caught my attention is this: But none of them will be able to prove it.
Sorry, those who give big money will find ways to document that they have shifted money to a particular account.