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How much influence on American elections should foreign corporations have?

If you answer anything other than "none" or "zero" and you're against Occupy Wall Street, a movement that is protesting the influence of multi-national corporations on American elections, why are you against OWS?

Update:

Or do you somehow think the only corporations spending money on American elections are American owned? Or do you believe money does not equal influence?

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  • 10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    According to me? None. According to our bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court, there should be no limits. .

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    None. That's why Republicans were not happy when Obama's on-line fundraising deliberately disconnected protections that would have prevented foreign-sourced donations.

    We also noticed just how much Wall Street gave to Obama and the Democrats in the previous election cycles, and how close Obama is to tycoons like Warren Buffett (whose company owes the IRS $1 billion) and Jeffrey Imelt (of tax-free GE that is moving jobs to China), and how close key Democrat congresscritters were with banking and mortgage companies and with Fannie and Freddie.

    We were also upset when Clinton was getting cash donations from Chinese and Indonesian corporations.

    Perhaps the problem is with all the corrupt Democrats that idiot voters keep electing?

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    And the hilarious thing about the NAZI occupier movement... it was started by a FOREIGN activist group.

    So.. we're supposed to be impressed because a FOREIGN socialist movement is protesting against foreign corporations?

  • Yo Guh
    Lv 4
    10 years ago

    You're awesome. I wonder that myself all the time. Excellent point. These huge corporations control a lot more of politics than people realize.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Nice try at spin , guy, but the Flea Party is NOT about protesting foreign businesses...it's a group on socialist marxist / druggies / ne'er do wells / union thugs / Democrap birdbrain cases...

  • 10 years ago

    None our elections are for our people to decide and it's none of other Countries business

  • 10 years ago

    "a movement that is protesting the influence of multi-national corporations on American elections"

    Dude, give me a break. That may be the focus of some there, but the rest are there to protest capitalism in general, and for bigger government, and the free pizza.

  • 10 years ago

    None, I'm with the OWS protesters.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    OWS is utterly avoiding any offense to even ONE such corporation. They are expressly targeting those NOT wrapped up in international leftist-politics.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I really don't think foreign business interests should be considered in American politics.

  • sharpe
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Yep, one became into surely elected in November 2008... After the previous year or so, it is obtrusive the Founding Fathers knew what they have been speaking approximately... Presidents with split loyalties do not artwork out to correctly... yep, foreigners should not be US Presidents. the place did I justify the contributions? i did not, and that i do discover them severe, yet not extra so than the huge quantities of questionable, and unlawful, marketing campaign donations to obama. Birther claims? there is not any doubt in any respect that obama's father became into by no potential a US Citizen, and that for the period of actuality obama became into born with Kenyan/British Citizenship... even his fightthesmears website admitted it....

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