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Corporation influence on Elections

Corporations are not people. Just as no one has ever heard a dollar bill speak and no one has ever heard a corporation speak. Nor can corporations vote since they are not citizens. Yet in this era many large corporations are more like foreign countries, being intertwined with businesses in other nations. Today we are investigating the influence of Russian on our elections. We have seen the Mueller Commission indict Russians for election tampering and everyone is wondering if Trump will be indicted for the conspiring with these anti-democratic forces. Who is investigating corporations? Take a minute and read about General Electric on Wikipedia. Count how many foreign banks and business are wholly or partly owned by GE. During the 2008 recession, our Federal Bank loaned billions, maybe trillions, of dollars to foreign central banks and in some cases directly to foreign financial institutions who where deeply intertwined with American business. They did this to keep the financial market...