Middle Eastern governments gave to Chamber’s election fund: report

Source: www.rawstory.com...

Apparently, foreign governments are having a field day purchasing our elections and most likely to their own ends. We already know that our elected officials are going to sell out to the highest bidder and now we have evidence. With the SCOTUS ruling that corporations have the same Constitutional rights as individuals, things are only going to get worse.

These days, it seems as if the American people are last on the minds of government and this is why we are getting screwed, not because Congress is incompetent. In fact, they would love for you to think that incompetence is the reason that nothing is getting done in DC, however it's not that nothing is getting done, it is that nothing is getting done for you.



--airspoon

And i bet everyone of those foreign companies have a US subsidiary registered in Nevada or Delaware ECT ECT.
Most multinational companies are true multinationals and have separate subsidiaries in many countries.
BP America, Inc is a American company

And its not like guys like George Soros do not pump money into the other side.
en.wikipedia.org...
www.iamthewitness.com...
sweetness-light.com...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
www.wnd.com...

By the way ThinkProgress is a left leaning front group funded by George Soros and a couple of mortgage billionaires Herbert and Marion Sandler
en.wikipedia.org...

This is just disinformation by the democrats to counter the US Chamber of Commerce adds supporting the Republicans.

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I don't see it as disinformation at all. When you have a company that is owned either in part or in majority by a foreign government and they are influencing government through contributions, then you have to question whether there may be a conflict of interest.

In fact, this is the exact thing that I was saying just after the legendary SCOTUS ruling that gave corporations the same rights as individuals. Because many corporations are multinationals and in part owned by foreign governments, we are basically extending our Constitutional protections to foreign countries and since our Constitutional only protects us from our own government itself, a government that intended to be of, by and for the American people, it is a clear conflict of interest.

No matter how you look at this, foreign governments or corporations should not be influencing our elections, regardless of whether they have a subsidiary here or not. Our founding fathers never intended anyoner other than American citizens to be protected under the Constitution, especially in matters that pertain to government mechanics.

Corporations by themselves, regardless of whether they are foreign owned or locally owned, already have a conflict of interest when they influence government and because they have more money and greater influence, they are always going to impede on the rights of the individual to have his say in the direction of this government. When you add to that foreign ownership, it makes it much worse.

Another reason why that was such a bad SCOTUS ruling and contradictory to the Constitution, is that almost every Corporation has some foreign ownership, to include foreign government and foreign entities aren't supposed to have any influence on our elections. It basically kills the idea of sovereignity and is contrary to not only the intentions of our founding fathers, but also the interests of Americans and our country as a whole.



--airspoon

I wish they would investigate the hundreds of thousands of dollars the Obama campaign got in 2008 from pre-paid credit cards.

I want all sides held accountable and to the same set of rules.

so i wonder if its ok for all those multinational companies who have unions if its ok for those unions to donate to election campaigns?

ge has union
beoing has a union
gm has a union
etc

interesting transnational unions come to mind i just wonder how much they donate.........but then agian unions and corporations are the same things they both function for profit.....


list of obamas top doners:

british petrol
goldman sachs
microsoft
google
citigroup
jp morgan chase
time warner
ubs
ibm
morgan stanley

right theres some multinational corporations


meh..............cry foul when they are doing the same things.................no wait you cant give them money just us!