Corporations Are Not People, My Friend

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Ralph welcomes Jeffrey Clements, founder of “American Promise,” an organization that seeks to write a 28th Amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. He is also author of the book, “Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy From Big Money & Global Corporations.” Plus: Listener Questions!

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0:00.0	From the K-P-F-K studios in Southern California,
0:03.6	it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
0:05.6	Stand up, stand up.
0:07.8	You've been sitting great to song.
0:19.0	Welcome to the Ralph Nader. Radio Wire, my name is Steve Scrovan along with the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph.
0:21.0	Hello, Steve. David Feldman is not joining us today, Ralph. Hello, Steve? David Feldman is not joining us today, Ralph.
0:25.0	He's off on a writing gig.
0:26.7	He's still in show business, apparently.
0:28.8	But we're going to soldier on without him and we do have a great show today and as a way to introduce our main topic I want
0:36.6	Jimmy our engineer to run a little piece of tape for us.
0:40.4	This is some of you may remember Mitt Romney at a campaign stop during the 2012 presidential election.
0:47.0	Roll that tape, Jimmy.
0:48.0	Corporations are people, my friend.
0:50.0	We can raise taxes, and of course they are are everything corporations are and ultimately goes to people
0:55.2	So where do you think it goes?
0:58.2	Who's pockets?
1:01.2	Who's pockets?
1:02.2	People's pockets.
1:03.0	Okay, human beings, my friends.
1:06.0	All right, that was Mitt Romney calling everybody his friend.
1:09.0	They did sound like they were his friends.
1:11.0	But I think our first guest today would dispute Mr.
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