"Freedom, Power and the Conservative Mind"
Freedom, Power and the Conservative Mind
by Robert Reich
http://robertreich.org/post/90575397140
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The deeper problem is the Courts obliviousness to the growing imbalance of economic power between corporations and real people. By giving companies the right not offer employees contraceptive services otherwise mandated by law, the Court ignored the rights of employees to receive those services.
(Justice Alitos suggestion that those services could be provided directly by the federal government is as politically likely as is a single-payer federal health-insurance plan which presumably would be necessary to supply such contraceptives or any other Obamacare service corporations refuse to offer on religious grounds.)
The same imbalance of power rendered the Courts decision in Citizens United, granting corporations freedom of speech, so perverse. In reality, corporate free speech drowns out the free speech of ordinary people who cant flood the halls of Congress with campaign contributions.
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Were likewise free not to be burdened with years of student debt payments; no one is required to attend college. And were free not to rent a place in a neighborhood with lousy schools and pot-holed roads; if we cant afford better, were free to work harder so we can.
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