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Alioto and Roberts and the rest of the Republican extremists believe in the process. The corporations (and by corporations and business I mean the large powerful multinational corporations like Halliburton, Walmart and Eli Lilly), and those who take their money in order to get elected do not believe in that process. (Small businesses have no more representation than you and I.)
We need a president that does not owe his or her election to the corporate lobbyists. Edwards will be that candidate. Edwards has fought the big corporations all these years fair and square in courtrooms -- by throwing the facts about the wrongful conduct of the corporations as revealed in their own evidence in their faces.
We will never get the kinds of laws and policies we need to protect our environment from Clinton or any president who relies on the big corporations and their lobbyists for campaign funds. It is not going to happen. The same is true with regard to all political issues, from trade to health care. The corporations fund candidates who will not push = toward change. The corporations find the candidates that will play the game according to the corporations' rules. Hillary is such a candidate. That is why I do not want her to be president. I want a president who plays the game according to rules that benefit all Americans not just the corporations.
I am not a socialist. (I am self employed at the moment, but I realize that I indirectly rely on other businesses for my income.) Business is one of the ways that we organize ourselves in society. But it is just one. Businesses have legitimate interests. But right now business dominates our government to an unhealthy extent -- to the exclusion of other interest groups. Our society is out of balance. We suffer the consequences of that imbalance in our homes, in our schools, on our roads, in our housing crisis, in our filthy environment, everywhere in our society.
Business, more precisely the multinational corporations dominate our government because of the money they donate to politicians. Hillary is one of the candidates that business donates a lot of money to. They do not donate that money because they they think Hillary is particularly competent or has a great personality although they may well believe that she is competent and that she has an appealing personality. The multinationals consider their donations to be investments -- in legislation and in regulation that will favor them over us and them over the environment. They cannot give their money away unless it is in the interest of their company to do so. I do not want to get rid of business. But I want the people who make the rules that apply both to business and to me to be independent and not to owe their livelihoods and political futures primarily to business. That is why I am for Edwards. Edwards does not hate business. He is often criticized for having worked for a hedge fund. He has invested millions of dollars in business. Edwards hates the corruption in D.C. that is being caused by the exaggerated influence of business. He recognizes that business should not be the only party sitting at the negotiation table.
And when you have a president -- like Bush or like Clinton who answers to the corporations, there is really only one party at the negotiating table. You have a corporate employee negotiating with other corporate employees. They all owe their seat at the table to the corporations. Thus, as it is now, big business is actually the only party sitting at the negotiation table. Even the Democrats in Congress at this time are dominated by the interests and needs of business. We the people have no voice. If Hillary is elected, there will be no change in that essential fact. There will be no balance. If Edwards is elected, there will be more than one party at the negotiation table. Edwards will point the finger at those who serve only the corporations and never the people. And then it will be up to us to demand policies that serve the interests of us and of our country.
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