Which corporate deep pockets make you shudder particularly badly?

[cali]

Monsanto?
Big Oil?
Big Coal?
Goldman Sachs?

[lib2DaBone]

1. Blackwater.. they carry weapons and they are out of control....

..compared to the TSA who are out of control... but dont carry weapons... yet.....

[greymattermom]

2. PHARMA

Just ask your doctor.

[yourout]

3. Haliburton, KBR, Walmart.

[The_Commonist]

4. Richard Mellon Scaife

Who knows what mischief that asshole will cause now...

[backscatter712]

20. Not to mention News Corp.

Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes are licking their chops right now...

[hatrack]

5. ADM, Southern Company, Monsanto, Cargill, Wall Street in general . . .

Food supply, climate/ocean acidification, energy policy, and money - the big four of the moment.

[Botany]

6. Exxon and Georgia Pacific

n/t

[Odin2005]

7. Scaife

[rucky]

8. They'll pool their resources and funnel it into a PAC.

like they always do.

[Loge23]

9. Goldman Sucks and Big Oil

These two can effectively (as we've already seen) shape the debate for Energy and Financial regulations.
This brings up another horrendous possibility of these mega-corps teaming up campaign-wise on mutually advantageous issues.
Greed has triumphed.

[lazer47]

10. The one Corporation that has more money that them all,,

The U.S. Government,,, that is who scares me.....

[ThomWV]

16. your logic is truly circular

[TheNev]

11. General Electric

...oh wait

[backscatter712]

12. The megachurches.

Sure, religious organizations are supposed to stay out of politics so they can claim tax-exempt status, but they'll weasel around it.

Watch for Chick-Fil-A, Hobby Lobby, AmWay, and other dominionist-owned corporations to start making enormous donations - they'll be pushing the Talibornagain agenda...

[ThomWV]

15. Not a snowball's chance in hell. They aren't much stronger than the Unions

Not many more members, not much more feverent, not much more financial backing. Exxon would eat them alive in an hour.

[backscatter712]

19. I wouldn't say "eat" as much as co-op.

The corporations like creating the image of a popular movement that backs them - why do you think we've got so much teabagger noise?

Of course the right-wing churches aren't going to really be in charge, but they're going to be led to believe that they are. And part of that means throwing them bones, such as banning of abortions, harassment of people that don't share their religion, whittling down the separation of church and state. After all, the next thing for the corporations is not just to have people obey them, but to worship them, or more precisely, worship their idea of Jesus that they'll foist on you, mass-marketed and tuned to be corporate friendly. Think Al Franken's Supply Side Jesus...

[tomg]

13. What I am

most concerned with is not that corporations will buy legislation ( which has been going on for awhile) so much as individual corporations will form coalitions that will further the interests of those particular corporations at the expense of other coalitions of corporations. So Newcorp ( media) hooks up with Monsanto ( agribusiness) and Blackwater (paramilitary)and Corrections Corporations of America to sponsor mutually supportive agendas. And they, in turn, will go against Disney linked with Dole and whomever.

[ThomWV]

14. That's not what I'm afraid of

I don't really fear any particlar company, their interests are too parochial. No, what I fear is that one single power that will emerge on top of them all. Because that is the real message here. The one with the most money wins. Well, when you do the counting there is only one guy who has the most.

What will happen next is the sorting out. We're going to see who has the 'most'. But in the end it will be one, and then it will be done.

[Orsino]

17. Wal-Mart, maybe.

The billions bled into Bentonville will now be flowing back, undammed, until America is a Wal-Mart.

[Enrique]

18. Olive Garden and Circuit City

:scared:

[Overseas]

21. All of the above. And thousands more. Let's push to revoke Corporate Personhood.

Motion to Amend

We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United, and move to amend our Constitution to:

* Firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
* Guarantee the right to vote and to participate, and to have our vote and participation count.
* Protect local communities, their economies, and democracies against illegitimate "preemption" actions by global, national, and state governments.

http://www.movetoamend.org/motion-amend

[jpljr77]

22. Gun manufacturers and defense contractors

You think there's a "military-industrial-Congressional complex" now? Just wait. Anyone proposing defense spending cuts or reasonable gun control measures will be slaughtered...so no one will even try.

[yourout]

23. If there is an earthquake near Washington it will be our founders rolling in there graves at .....

a million RPMs.