If they are people, can we blame one?

Published 12:33 pm Tuesday, January 10, 2012

In response to Tuesday’s dictionary lesson on Supreme Court corruption, I’d like to advance the concept. (Letter, “The very word means people.”) If corporations are people, there’s no reason they can’t get the death penalty when they knowingly let their clients die due to their negligence. Or, how about life in prison for the board?

Aren’t you guys all about rights and responsibilities?

Unions are a tiny fraction of the money in politics; super PACs are unlimited, unregulated, and most likely, partly foreign.

“Balance and harmony” from “thoughtful adults” in moneyed and lobbied politics shows a certain naive attitude of humans on earth. When are people gonna wake up and realize that there’s no such thing as a “free market.” We subsidize the winners and punish the losers, i.e., banks, oil companies vs. unions, welfare.

Capitalism’s fine, but there have to be rules to the game. You wouldn’t play Monopoly with your kids and let them make up the rules as the game goes on, would you? Rich people are the kids, in case you didn’t get the reference.

Randy Nessinger

Marysville