William Greider Quotes
Corporations, by their nature, do not function as democratic organizations.
William Greider, Journalist & Editor, Who Will Tell The People, 1992
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Chomsky sees this as a problem. Many others see it as a virtue that government agencies receive current information from companies and that there is an exchange of personnel where company officials bring their experience to assist government and corporations benefit from having executives who had some government experience.
In the Citizens United case, the Supreme Court ruled that Corporations were people in the sense that the corporations had the right of freedom of speech in general and all political speech in particular and spending money on campaigns was a form of speech. Many thought that the consequences would be terrible for the American political system and urged legislation and/or a Constitutional Amendment. They particularly attacked the notion that a corporation was a person as this quotation illustrates.
By restricting or limiting the campaign contributions of corporations, Scalia observed, the government is in effect is muffing the voices of the entities which not only is a great source of information on the economy, but it represents and is a very large component of the American economy itself. The Citizen United case resolved that issue to obtain the views and information of the corporations, but in the views of many others the price society pays is very high—perhaps too high.
Mrs. Nixon put her foot down and the West Wing did not thereafter control and manage the affairs and staff of the First Lady.
William Harold Greider was an American journalist and author who wrote primarily about economics.
