I am using the translator of google. I am of Rosary, Argentina. Excuse me if something is not understood.
This one can be compared projecto with the allegory of the caverns of platón. Where some of them discover the real reality of the things, they Try to be told the others, but it turns out very difficult to manage to convince them.

I am very satisfied with this project, agree totally with every word and believe that we have ahead a difficult task of concientizacion to achieve the action of the community towards a royal and positive change.

I expect to find the form of being able to contribute with the reason.

Attentivly.

Victor Fernando

Another great piece! Too bad you didn’t add how labor unions are under attack to the mix. Under a constitutional amendment, they, too, would be prohibited from contribution to political campaigns, but they’d be a lot safer than they are now!

Also, I think the bit on public financing of campaigns was distracting. If you start adding options, like that and laws that require transparency, you are just begging for corporations to exercise their personhood in new ways. Stick with the amendment!

I believe Annie did a good job of identifying the problem…and the actions needed to address the unfail support of corporations. However, the area that I strongly disagree with is that she continually kept referring to our democracy. We do not have a democracy. We have a Republic! By substituting the word Republic for the word democracy in the film would be correct! Benjamin Franklin stated, “We give you a Republic, if you can keep it!” You will not turn off the patriots and scholars who know the difference by correcting your error! In fact you will garner much more support by making the correction, and admiting your error. That is unless it was intentional! If it is intentional, you have just lost my support, and I have promoted your site and program to many. Now, I have a cautious concern. Thank you for being willing to solicit my comment.

please adjust your wording as this country was not founded as a democracy. it is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC. to continue to call this country something its not is misleading. democracy is not a good thing if not governed by the law. just being clear.

other than that I enjoyed the presentation.

I’d only suggest that you research the word “PERSON” in any law dictionary. Corporations ARE PERSONS. You are not (the opposite of what is said in the first couple minutes of the video). If you think you are a PERSON by the definitions that the democracy uses, look again. Look up the definition of PERSON. Look up the definition of corporation. Now, look up the definition of a sovereign. It will change the way you see the truth. Until then, you might very well be buying into a system and jurisdiction that you don’t mean at all to surrender your soul to.

Thanks for your tips about this blog. One particular thing I wish to say is the fact that purchasing electronic products items through the Internet is nothing new. The fact is, in the past decade alone, the marketplace for online consumer electronics has grown noticeably. Today, you will discover practically any kind of electronic tool and other gadgets on the Internet, including cameras and camcorders to computer parts and games consoles.

I guess I missed something in American History. Even though I taught it, in public school. When did we become a democracy???? Lets see, when I used to say the Pledge of Allegiance, it says, “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands,….” etc., etc.. Not to the democracy. What then is a democracy? It is majority rules. In a republic we have elected officials, and LAWS!!! We have given up our rights to politicians that totally disregard the laws of the nation. That get courts to do the work that the elected officials should be doing at our insistence. The Greeks started with a Republic. Remember that Greek, Plato? Well it worked so well for the Greeks that the Romans copied there form of government it went well for many years until they decided they would have the majority rule. The minority is then not represented. Well this did not happen over night. It was probably the first major case of incrementalism. Same as what we have today in this country. Rome fell. Maybe, just maybe that is what is happening here to the US of A. By letting the majority rule and politicians change the laws of our country, formed under the Constitution, we follow the Romans down that slippery slope of failure. When you have a president that says publicaly that the Constitution of this country is no longer valid and does not serve us and that he wants to change it, I see a future of failure. Our poor educational system has created a mass of people ignorant of our political system and ready and willing to drink the kool-aide handed out by politicians. Good luck Americans. Revisit your American History and get a clue.

A Democratic Republic is also a Representative Democracy. In other words, yes, we are a Democracy. Don’t get so worked up about word choices when there are far more important things to be concerned about.

You state that corporations have a ‘legal duty to maximise shareholder profits’ and I have seen this written elsewhere but have never found the source of this.

My understanding (in the UK) is that company directors have a duty to ‘promote the success of the company for the benefit of its members as a whole, and in doing so have regard (amongst other matters) to…’ (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/part/10/chapter/2).

As I interpret this any rational and competent company officer would take the long-term view for the business to thrive – and that means a healthy society and its infrastructure.

Of course we know that the reality is one of greed and short-term gain but that’s not the same as being a legal requirement.