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In reply to the discussion: America Is Ruled by Billionaires, and They Are Coming After the Last Shreds of Our Democracy [View all]Initech
(108,042 posts)33. There's no need for them to have Secret Service protection.
They already own the police, judges, prisons, Congress, and SCOTUS. They decide who gets locked up and who to go to war against. Really after you have all that do you really need protection?
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America Is Ruled by Billionaires, and They Are Coming After the Last Shreds of Our Democracy [View all]
xchrom
Apr 2013
OP
Criminals will get away with crime base not on their crimes, but on the prosecutors decision about
midnight
Apr 2013
#2
Billionaires won't be happy until they're trillionaires. And then the goalpost will move yet again.
valerief
Apr 2013
#4
This seems so obvious to us. Are there any reading here who disagree, I wonder?
OneGrassRoot
Apr 2013
#8
When I last checked, corporations didn't have Secret Service protection. Go for it
leveymg
Apr 2013
#31
As long a one poor person has a penny in his pocket, the rich will not give up.
alfredo
Apr 2013
#41
