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Constitutional Changes Soon?

Name: regret !tsGpSwX8mo 2005-02-08 0:34

What do you think of the new effort to change our Constitution to allow foreign-born citizens the right to become President?  Will it be for the better for the United States or will it be our ruin? 

Name: Anonymous 2005-02-14 1:18

politics and capitalist democracy...

the parties want to maintain power, to maintain power you must placate or otherwise persuade the voters(elections) and maintain allied corporate interests(funding)
the voters are american, the corporations are american... the president will always look out for american interests, it is not a choice left up to him as an individual... wether born in america or born elsewhere

counter argument
allowing tax shelters for corporations is one grey-area example of a counter-intuitive/nationalistic policy

but globalization did it, the multinational corporations based in america are doing the same as the rest of the multinationals based in europe or asia etc... all their account numbers in offshore holding banks are likely consecutive, its called "remaining globally competitive"

forcing american based corporations to pay "extra" into the revenue stream by fully exposing themselves to governmental audit can only go so far... eventually they will simply go headquarter themselves somewhere else that is more favorable to profit margins

its purely a numbers game, legal technicalities, creative accounting
they caught enron and mci but thats just the tip of the global iceberg....
lets not bring up japan's corporate acrobatics... like owning their own banks and lending to themselves

at least we have a free press here, in china they would just cover it up or governmentally subsidize it entirely..
instead of doing a public media post-mortem when one of these "creative" corporations fail the way its been done here

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