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News bites -- the sequel
by Sr. Rose Pacatte on Aug. 17, 2011
On August 15, I wrote about "News Bites" on my blog.
In today's Los Angeles Times, Stephen Baker, a former senior writer for Business Week and author of "Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything", reflects on Mitt Romney's August 11 sound byte, "Corporations are people, my friend."
Baker is to be applauded for his civil discourse on what speaks as whom.
The fact that Romney defaulted to this statement in his response to a heckler about corporations being people is worth much reflection, reflection that Mr. Baker offers here.
I hope his reflection bites us awake.
I rest my case.





Sr. Rose, You may well have
Sr. Rose,
You may well have already seen this. Stephan Baker isn't the only business writer concerned about the blatant emphasis that "corporations are people". for example:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/opinion/corporate-interests-threaten-c...
a Joel Baker (?) pushes the argument further. Corporations are described as "persons" by law. Their end all is to make money. Then he pushes it toward their nterests and those of children.
Apparently originally in the New York Times. I happened across it while scanning the Yahoo Finance page.
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