Vermont Calls of Congress to Overturn the Corrupt Citizens United Decision

The great state of Vermont became the third state on Thursday to call on the U.S. Congress to overturn the Supreme Court’s controversial and corrupt ruling in Citizens United v. FEC.

The Vermont House passed the resolution by a 92-40 vote. The Vermont Senate passed the resolution 26-3 last week. No doubt, representatives who voted against the measure may have been on the Koch brothers pay roll.

The 2010 Citizens United ruling struck down key provisions of the federal McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law and gave rise to super PACS, officially known as independent-expenditure only committees, which can raise an unlimited amount of money to influence federal elections as long as they do not directly coordinate with a candidate’s campaign.

The ruling held that limiting corporate campaign spending violated the First Amendment, because political contributions were a form of political speech and corporations were legally persons. It should be pointed out that the word “corporation” does not appear in the constitution, a point the Koch Brothers wing of the court refused to acknowledge, Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito.

“The General Assembly urges Congress to consider the request of many Vermont cities and towns to propose a U.S. constitutional amendment for the state’s consideration that provides that money is not speech and corporations are not persons under the U.S. Constitution and that also affirms the constitutional rights of natural persons,” Vermont’s resolution, authored by State Senator Ginny Lyons (D), stated.

Similar resolutions have passed in Hawaii and New Mexico.

“By fighting so passionately, Vermonters have put the state on the map as opposing corporate influence in our elections. Public Citizen is proud to have played a coordinating role with our Vermont partners in this movement victory,” said Aquene Freechild, senior organizer with Public Citizen’s Democracy Is For People campaign.

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Corporate, Koch Brothers, Corrupt Wing of the Supreme Court Are Slimey

The Supreme Court is rigged and has been for well over a decade. You know what I’m talking about. How about a chief justice that committed perjury under sworn testimony during his confirmation hearings. Slime Bag John Roberts testified that he would respect “precedence.” And then at the behest of the Koch Brothers, the slime bag voted yes on Citizens United, thereby destroying a hundred years of precedence. The supreme court is obviously corrupt and why the Justice Department is not investigating the slime bags of the court is beyond comprehension.

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The Corporate Koch Brothers Wing of the Supreme Court Strikes Down Fundamental Constitutional Rights

The corporate wing of the Supreme Court has once again ruled against the US constitution. The court ruled a few days ago that law enforcement can strip search anybody at any time. This is part of their apparent scheme to make the constitution not relevant to people, which means it’s part of the one percent’s scam to disenfranchise the 99 percent as much as possible so as to control us better when enough of us realize their scam is to turn the US into a third world country. The Fourth Amendment reads like this:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Apparently, the Koch Brothers Wing of the Supreme Court decided the founding fathers were wrong about people being “secure in their persons.” Alito, Thomas, Roberts and Scalia have decided to be activist judges. The court decided this part of the Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to people, but it should be pointed out that these “rebels against the constitution” have ruled this phrase still applies to corporations, which are tools of the rich.

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Senator Ron Wyden: Useful Idiot, part two

Corporate Drone Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has come up with a new scam on his behalf of his Wall Street masters to redistribute income from working Americans to the one percent via a bill that provides vouchers for health care insurance. Liberal economist Paul Krugman called Wyden a useful idiot for his proposal, and deservedly so. I read the proposal and this is what I thought.

It sounds like Obama care in that the feds are going to force u to buy health insurance, “For starters, every American…will be required to choose – a comprehensive health insurance plan.”

What’s that? “Required to choose?” Sounds like it came straight out of the Heritage Foundation. Maybe that’s why that corporate/socialist Republican congressman Paul Ryan is the cosponsor of the bill. Geez, I wonder how the conservative supreme court justices will rule on the constitutional power of the federal government to force people to buy health insurance? I’m rooting for them to strike it down and they might if the insurance companies suggest they do so. On the other hand, no doubt, the justices will strike down Obamacare because the federal government doesn’t have the constitutional power to force people to buy stuff. But the justices might feel different if vouchers were involved because they like vouchers and Republican ideas on redistributing income from working Americans to the one percent.

Wyden’s plan has got to be a joke. “Eliminating employers as an additional payer would encourage consumers to use health care more efficiently.” In other words, the insurance companies will keep jacking up the prices so that citizens are getting less and less bang for the buck. Employers negotiate prices on behalf of their employees with the insurance companies. Geez, if employees are negotiating with them separately, I have no doubt how that will work out. We lose. The insurance companies win.

Wyden wrote, “Getting rid of the employer tax deduction, which costs a whopping $200 billion a year, would free up funds to subsidize insurance up to 400 percent of the poverty line, which is $82,000 for a family of four.”

Are companies going to be taxed for that money? Because they’re not going to donate it so that the poor can buy insurance. They’re going to use it to jack up profits, dividends and rising share costs for the one percent. That seems to be Wyden’s intent, redistribute more income from the 99 percent to the one percent. Then he’ll increase the federal taxes of the middle class or increase the deficit to fund the poor.

This plan of Corporate drone Wyden and Corporate Drone/Socialist Republican Paul Ryan sucks. It’s an income redistribution scam.

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How will the Corrupt, Koch Brothers, Conservative Wing of the Supreme Court Decide On The Fate of Obamacare?

I’ve long said the Federal government forcing people to buy health insurance is the same as forcing them to purchase ketchup. I still think I’m right. The Interstate Commerce Clause doesn’t allow the federal government to do this. That’s why state government’s force buyers of vehicles to purchase car insurance. The states can, the feds can’t. FDR knew this and that’s why he made Social Security a tax.

However, there is a clever argument as to why the feds can compel people to buy health insurance and it’s not the same as forcing them to purchase ketchup. I disagree, but click on the link below for a convincing argument on the subject.

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The Supreme Courts Ends Historic Health Care Arguments

(Reuters) – The Supreme Court on Wednesday ended more than six hours of oral arguments over three days about whether President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law would survive constitutional scrutiny, setting up to deliver a ruling on its fate by late June.

Over the past three days, the nine-member court delved into whether Congress exceeded its authority by requiring most Americans to obtain health insurance by 2014 or face a penalty, along with whether the entire wide-ranging law must be struck down if they found that critical provision to be invalid.

The Koch Brothers wing of the court, Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito have likely already made up their minds. No doubt they want a Republican to become president and striking down the health care act will help to undermine Obama’s reelection chances, so naturally they’re going to vote against the law regardless of the legal merits of it.

(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky; Editing by Howard Goller and Will Dunham)

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Healthcare bill facing battle to pass after tough questions from justices

I’ve been saying it for years! The federal government can no more make a person buy health care insurance than it force them to purchase Heinz Ketchup. I’m not even a lawyer and I can see that. Now the Supreme Court is questioning this concept of the Affordable Health Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.

“Can the government require you to buy a cell phone because that would facilitate responding when you need emergency services? You can just dial 911 no matter where you are?” asked Chief Justice Roberts, a corrupt, Koch Brothers lackey.

The government says that because almost everybody uses health care at some point in their lives, this makes forcing people to buy health care insurance a unique case. On the other hand, most people buy ketchup, whether on a bun or via the inside of a burger at McDonald’s or some other point of their lives. Should the government mandate that we all have to buy ketchup?

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Five Things to Know About the Supreme Court’s Health Care Review

The first thing to understand about the court’s coming decision is the profit motive. The five members of the corrupt corporate Koch Brothers wing of the supreme court could rule that the health care law is a person with all of the constitutional rights of any other person. Let’s face it. The corporation is a creation of the law, just like Obama-Care. However, if a small number of rich people can’t get wealthier off of Obama-Care, it is highly unlikely these corrupt justices will rule that Obama-Care is a person. They may even strike down large sections of the law if they feel certain sections of the law interferes with extorting more profits from working Americans on behalf of wealthy shareholders.

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Tax the Super Pacs

When the traitorous and corrupt Koch Brothers wing of the US Supreme court ruled in favor of personhood for corporations, allowing unlimited spending on political campaigns in its anti-constitutional ruling in the Citizens United Case, it destroyed the remains of honest government. Now Super Political Action Committees rule the political landscape. People don’t. Now somebody has come up with a novel method for dealing with these Super Pacs. Tax them.

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Poll: Voters want super PACs to be illegal

By a 7 to 3 margin, American citizens want super PACS gone! This is according to a new poll out. Super PACS are organizations that allow rich folks to spend unlimited amounts of money on politics. It’s highly unlikely the wishes of the American people will be considered by the plutocrats in congress of both parties.

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