Comments on: Iz R Korprations Lerning? http://www.1115.org/2008/10/22/iz-r-korprations-lerning/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:49:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: kiel http://www.1115.org/2008/10/22/iz-r-korprations-lerning/comment-page-1/#comment-76918 kiel Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:41:03 +0000 http://www.1115.org/2008/10/22/iz-r-korprations-lerning/#comment-76918 Ahh...OK. That makes more sense. Thanks. Ahh…OK. That makes more sense. Thanks.

]]> By: matt http://www.1115.org/2008/10/22/iz-r-korprations-lerning/comment-page-1/#comment-76916 matt Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:22:20 +0000 http://www.1115.org/2008/10/22/iz-r-korprations-lerning/#comment-76916 the army didn't contribute, its employees did. when you make a contribution, you must list certain information, and employer is one piece. the campaign finance databases code this and you can search by employer to find patterns just like this. earlier this year when poor people were maxing out to mccain, they were found by this method. the army didn’t contribute, its employees did. when you make a contribution, you must list certain information, and employer is one piece. the campaign finance databases code this and you can search by employer to find patterns just like this. earlier this year when poor people were maxing out to mccain, they were found by this method.

]]> By: kiel http://www.1115.org/2008/10/22/iz-r-korprations-lerning/comment-page-1/#comment-76915 kiel Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:08:37 +0000 http://www.1115.org/2008/10/22/iz-r-korprations-lerning/#comment-76915 This is a bit off topic, but you folks seem pretty sharp, and I'm puzzled by something I just found on OpenSecrets.org: It reports that the US Army is john mccain's 10th biggest campaign contributor ($150,470), the US Government (maybe this one is federal matching funds or something) is 12th ($149,818), and the US Dept. of Defense is 16th ($127,325). My question is: How can the military or departments within the federal government--at least two of which are under executive control--donate money to an election that is deciding who their boss will be? This seems inherently unconstitutional (if, e.g., Al Gore can't make donation solicitation calls from federal phones). But I must be missing something. So, like I say, sharp folks: Can you enlighten me? This is a bit off topic, but you folks seem pretty sharp, and I’m puzzled by something I just found on OpenSecrets.org: It reports that the US Army is john mccain’s 10th biggest campaign contributor ($150,470), the US Government (maybe this one is federal matching funds or something) is 12th ($149,818), and the US Dept. of Defense is 16th ($127,325).

My question is: How can the military or departments within the federal government–at least two of which are under executive control–donate money to an election that is deciding who their boss will be? This seems inherently unconstitutional (if, e.g., Al Gore can’t make donation solicitation calls from federal phones). But I must be missing something.

So, like I say, sharp folks: Can you enlighten me?

]]> By: kiel http://www.1115.org/2008/10/22/iz-r-korprations-lerning/comment-page-1/#comment-76914 kiel Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:40:11 +0000 http://www.1115.org/2008/10/22/iz-r-korprations-lerning/#comment-76914 Next thing you know, the luxury yacht builders will be looking for some o' that $700 billion, because all their orders got cancelled when everyone's stocks went in the crapper. "C'mon," they'll say, "ease up credit so we can sell Joe Sixpack the yacht he deserves! Or are ya socialist?" Next thing you know, the luxury yacht builders will be looking for some o’ that $700 billion, because all their orders got cancelled when everyone’s stocks went in the crapper. “C’mon,” they’ll say, “ease up credit so we can sell Joe Sixpack the yacht he deserves! Or are ya socialist?”

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