Time to clean HOUSE

The United States of America was founded on basic principals. One of those principals was the US Constitution, a living document which can be altered as times change.

A lot of politicians, activists and voices for both sides forget the latter part of that statement. It is a document which can be changed, because times change.

Times have changed, the US has had laws that encouraged industry and allowed companies to become more powerful than the people, in more ways than one. Companies can contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to political campaigns, you can't. In return for these contributions, companies seek and get favors. As a result politicians will resort to anything to get more and more contributions to get in office, which means doing anything to support contributors. Do you think companies have your best interest at heart?

So, the way the US government was set up to encourage business was used by businesses to in turn gain too much power.

Let me give you an analogy. Unions, before unions were first formed, labor jobs in the US were absurd, deaths on the job, minimal pay, no benefits, if you got hurt you got fired. Basically human beings were used like tools. Unions begain to form to make things fair for the worker and it worked. The US had the best labor conditions, great pay and benefits. Then things swing in the other direction. Today, unions are oft too powerful for companies, make absurd demands and protect employees who hurt the company. When you talk to certain Union members, they understand, others still have the old mentality that the Union is right no matter what. Some unions are very good, others are not.

Back to the topic at hand. Companies have influenced our government to no end.

Care to disagree? Let me ask you this, why would a company want to give hundreds of millions of dollars to a political campaign? Just to be nice?