We're not going to fix the economy or get single-payer health care for all unless we manage to overcome the power of corporate lobbyists and corporation-owned members of Congress.

As long as the US government continues to favor corporations over people, and corporate profits over the economic well-being of each and every US citizen, we don't have a prayer of getting universal single-payer health coverage, affordable college education, or decent-paying jobs. Or a clean environment and clean energy.

Corporations will continue to block all efforts for affordable health care. They will continue to ship our jobs overseas with impunity. They will continue to receive huge tax breaks, benefits, government contracts and research grants, even though they treat average Americans like dirt.

Congress bailed out the banking industry because bank corporations are SO much more important than an average American who is losing a home to foreclosure.

Many other nations respect their individual citizens and treat them decently. Their citizens get 4-week paid vacations, significant paid parental leave, free college educations and free health care as well as government pensions that allow them to retire without starving. This is definitely not the case here. I for one am sick of the way our country has been taken over by the corporations.

To paraphrase from the Monty Python Meaning of Life song, "Every Sperm is sacred",

"Every corporation's sacred,
Every corporation's great.
If a corporation gets taxed or forced to take responsibility for its actions
It gets quite irate.

Every corporation's powerful.
Screw the little folk.
If they think their votes count
well, that's just a joke.

Corporations rule us.
Their lobbyists ride high.
If you get in their way somehow,
Just kiss your ass goodbye."