Liberal Forum

MistyBlue, on 26 February 2012 - 11:02 AM, said:Unlike you, I want every American citizen to vote.I want people to inform themselves, then vote.So would you give them some kind of a test before they could vote?Clem: You have absolutely nothing to link Weyrich with anything unethical, let alone illegal.Weyrich was a religious nut, who would have loved to turn this country into a theocracy.Weyrich also was one of the founders of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council.I find that group pretty damn unethical.ALEC is not a lobby; it is not a front group. It is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, behind closed doors, corporations hand state legislators the changes to the law they desire that directly benefit their bottom line. Along with legislators, corporations have membership in ALEC. Corporations sit on all nine ALEC task forces and vote with legislators to approve model bills. They have their own corporate governing board which meets jointly with the legislative board. They fund almost all of ALEC's operations. Participating legislators, overwhelmingly conservative Republicans, then bring those proposals home and introduce them in statehouses across the land as their own brilliant ideas and important public policy innovationswithout disclosing that corporations crafted and voted on the bills.http://www.sourcewat...xchange_CouncilALEC is very much active today. That's why so many state legislatures have introduced so many similar pieces of legislation in the last couple of years. The laws were written by their corporate masters.But, I'm sure you have no problem with corporations writing legislation. After all, they always have the people's best interest at heart, and not the bottom line, right?