{"id":209,"date":"2011-10-30T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scott.teee.tv\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2025-02-19T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:52:28","slug":"occupy-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scott.teee.tv\/blog\/2011\/10\/30\/occupy-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that Corporations which legally are artificial \u201cPersons\u201d should have one of their rights removed by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>A Corporation and a business is a privilege created by the government.\u00a0 Currently as I am aware the only legal difference between \u201cthe people\u201d and these Persons (Corporations) is that Corporations can not vote.<\/p>\n<p>Since Congress creates the laws regarding commerce and the states create the laws with respect to Corporations, they are God, creator.\u00a0 The government has the power to create and tax and should exercise its right as creator and manage these corporations financial dealings more strictly than real living humans.\u00a0 It should not matter to one single living person because these Persons do not really exist except as pieces of paper.<\/p>\n<p>We have checks and balances and the courts have upheld corporations rights to donate money to political elections.\u00a0 I believe laws could be formulated that will limit and take away the privileges of companies to donate money in such a way as it would be upheld as Constitutional by the Supreme Court.\u00a0 I\u2019m speaking philosophically, I don\u2019t know the details, but the people and the government should work together (and leave out the Corporate \u2013 \u201cPersons\u201d\u00a0 to come up with laws which would be legal, fair and eventually be upheld to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>I am not against money being donated by any individual working for any corporation.\u00a0 There should be no limit upon a citizen how much he donates.\u00a0 I believe corporations should funnel their money to its employees however the corporation sees fit, and then the individuals can donate the money in any amount.\u00a0 We don\u2019t want to deny an individuals rights, we do want to limit non-existent humans rights.<\/p>\n<p>This is only one part of the solution.<\/p>\n<p>It is my strong belief\u00a0 that most of our country\u2019s labor hours are spent fixing things that other people broke.\u00a0 Wars, crime and our appetite for throwing stuff away and buying new hurts our economy by generally making everyone one of us to work harder and longer to pay for it all.\u00a0 In economics, I\u2019ve never heard the \u201cBroken Window fallacy\u201d taught, but it should be mandatory!\u00a0 If a window is broken on purpose by another, the owner can now NOT buy what he wanted to buy, he must buy what he HAS to buy.\u00a0 He must work harder and longer.<\/p>\n<p>I can understand why others would WANT to work harder and longer, so at least they CAN work.\u00a0 The only solution as I see it, is to educate people so they KNOW that we must conserve and not destroy and that it will help us net total in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that Corporations which legally are artificial \u201cPersons\u201d should have one of their rights removed by Congress. A Corporation and a business is a privilege created by the government.\u00a0 Currently as I am aware the only legal difference between \u201cthe people\u201d and these Persons (Corporations) is that Corporations can not vote. Since Congress creates &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/scott.teee.tv\/blog\/2011\/10\/30\/occupy-wall-street\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Occupy Wall Street<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.teee.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.teee.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.teee.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.teee.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.teee.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/scott.teee.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"http:\/\/scott.teee.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.teee.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.teee.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.teee.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}