Presidential Election Politics 2012

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Corporate Personhood Notes - 2012

Some notes on the current corporate personhood issue.

If you want corporations to be seen as persons then you have to divest the corporation of its shareholders. It is illegal in the United States to own a person, that is slavery.

Corporations do not die they go bankrupt and at worst dissolve. Although Walt Disney may be frozen, awaiting an awakening, the corporation he founded is alive and thriving. The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) (commonly referred to as Disney) may last for 100s of years.

DuPont, Crane & Co, Colgate-Palmolive and The Hartford are examples of American corporations that are over 200 years old. They seem bathe in a fountain of personhood youth,

JPMorgan Chase is the result of the combination of several large U.S. banking companies. It has continued to grow and thrive to its current size since its establishment in 1799 when it was known as the Bank of the Manhattan Company. The acquisition and eating of other corporate persons is key to this company's longevity. Some may call this type of action by humans as a form of cannibalism.

A central point of debate in recent years is what role corporate money plays and should play in democratic politics. This is part of the larger debate on campaign finance reform and the role that money may play in politics.

Corporations can be seen as beings whose goals are not the same as general population, The company's primary goal is the well being of that company as measured by profits and only secondarily the well being of its workers. This is like a person saying as long as I can get up in the morning I don't care what happens to my red blood cells.

This may be a gross simplification of the corporate personhood issue, But the granting of full personhood status to a corporation, an entity that has only one goal, profit for itself, is not the same as the rights a living person with all that that implies. Perhaps in future this may change when some corporate entity announces the artificial creation of human baby.

For more on this issue look at: ReclaimDemocracy.org
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/personhood/