100% corporate. 100%. All of the advisors to the admin on upcoming trade deals.

[davidthegnome]

18. So once more...

It is demonstrated that corporations are, in fact, NOT people, as they have far more power in this Country than any single person. I'm tired of working for them, I'm tired of my tax dollars going to bail them out, I'm tired of reading about food stamps being cut, poor people having to take drug tests to get the measly money TANF pays them... while quietly, these corporations are closing the lid on the coffin of our democracy.

I'm just tired. It's getting harder and harder to believe that we can really make a difference. I'm tired of having to kiss their asses at work. I don't dislike the President, maybe he has no choice in some of these matters, maybe it's not up to him, maybe he HAS been threatened, or something. The candidate was so very different from the President... and of course, that's always the case. I just hoped for something different.

What are our options here, anyway? Protest in mass numbers? Remember how that worked out during the Iraq war and the buildup to it? Protest zones, inaccurate media reporting, police brutality. Or OWS - again, more of the same, beaten down, demonized, imprisoned, scoffed at.

Since the Citizens United ruling, it has become even worse. These politicians generally don't wipe their asses without some kind of corporate permission. With the exception of a rare few... they're just working for their bosses, the same way we are.

Damn I'm tired.