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The First Amendment

January 21, 2010 - 11:50 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Dave
2010-01-22 00:08:46

Hang tight, things are gonna get even more interesting.

I am most definitely in favor of all this, it is long overdue. As things have evolved until now, corporate money was being spent but in ways that were beyond the ability of shareholders to control. Legalizing more direct and aboveboard expenditures at least opens the possibility that those shareholders
will assert themselves and see to it that corporate earnings finance those politicians
friendly to the free market.

But having said that much, I hasten to add
that legality in no ways guarantees astuteness. That will have to come about through trial and error. They make the errors, we suffer the trials.

The good news? Whatever comes next cannot be any more corrupt than what we have now.

Good enough for me.