Ding Dong, Something's Wrong.

There's a new book out about Bernie Maddof. He's the guy who is the undisputed king of the ponzi scheme. A ponzi scheme is a polite way of saying you got screwed. Now the ponzi schemer can be a person or a corporation. Oh wait a corporation is a person. I know, I know you think I really hate corporations. Actually I don't hate corporations. I hate that our supreme court thinks they're persons. A corporation is actually just a piece of paper filed in some courthouse somewhere. A person, you can get mad at or punch out, which could lead to jail time, but a corporation, you can't punch out a piece of paper and if you did, you wouldn't go to jail for it. I understand we need corporations. Corporations are industry and business. Nearly all business and indusrty have incorporated. It's all there, spelled out on paper. You can't argue your case with a corporation. You can talk with an employee or even the owner, but you can't reason with a piece of paper. That's why I can't understand a group of nine, supposedly well educated, president appointed, senate approved supreme court justices. They're smart folks. How come that bell in their collective heads didn't go off. You know. The bell that rings "ding- dong, something's wrong"? How come it didn't go off when somebody suggested "hey lets make corporations into people". How come? What was it, a gag? Did they all have a good laugh about it afterword?  I mean I can understand they wanted corporations to recieve some protections and of course they saw the advantages for the government to be able to tax corporations.  But don't you think they've gone just a little bit overboard? The way things now stand, corporations have far more rights and privilages than people. I mean human people. As opposed to corporate people. The court wants corporations to be able to have an unfettered say in the election process. But don't the employees and owners already have those rights and privilages? Isn't giving the corporation those rights a duplication of rights and privilages? Shouldn't there be some double jeopardy protection in there somewhere? Ding-dong, something's wrong.