I know I'll be accused of oversimplication.....

But I really believe you can pretty much trace almost all of the slow but sometimes briefly interrupted, but ultimately persistent downward decline of this country toward its eventual collapse back to one specific day in 1886.

Anyone know what it was?


:)

EDIT - I mean what the event was, not the day....and I'm not "schooling" here... just having a little fun.

I love Wikipedia.

:D

What event were you thinking?

January 29 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

a court decision that corporation could be treated as a person (sue and be sued; etc)?

;)
(referring to Jan. 29 here)

on July 6th (GWB's birthday). When the corporations were granted the rights of person hood when the 14th amendment was passed.

No small wonder that *'s the poster dude for corporate america.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

which is weird because I had gotten the previous info off wikipedia a while ago.

But ya never know with them.

1886

right?

;-)

:D

:hi:

:hi:

Yes, Wiki IS your friend:
The US Supreme Court rules on Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co., granting corporations the same rights as living persons.

if indeed corporations are people, and waterboarding is ok, can we waterboard Halliburton? :shrug:

the Supreme Court ruled no such thing in 1886. The 'corporations are persons' ruling was a fiction created by the court’s reporter. He simply wrote the words into the headnote of the decision. The words contradict what the court actually said. There is, in fact, in the US National Archives a note by the Supreme Court Chief Justice of the time explicitly informing the reporter that the court had not ruled on corporate personhood in the Santa Clara case.

— Thom Hartmann, Dinosaur War, The Ecologist, December/January 2002 Issue


Obviously Hartmann shares the accurate critical analysis of the rise of corporate power as the rest of us, he just points out --- if correct -- that even the sort of triggering event of the rise of corporation was based on a distortion and manipulation of reality.

book Unequal Protection?
It's great.