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Big corporations target more than our money. Consumer Watchdog's book Corporateering showed how how corporations routinely and quietly rob us of our personal freedoms, including privacy, security, the right to legal recourse, and more. "Corporateering" - the act of prioritizing commercial gain over individual, social, or cultural gain - is everywhere in our lives. Consumer Watchdog works to protect individuals from the corporate assualt on their rights and freedoms.
The president talked and joked easily with America from Jay Leno's couch last night, as close to a fire side chat as it gets in these times. Leno is no Jon Stewart but Obama did offer some clues as to where his financial regulatory approach is going.
After Enron's fraud on California during the 2001 electricity crisis became clear, a lot of politicians felt they had to give back their Enron contributions. Our consumer group was the beneficiary of a few of those returned dollars, since we fought the energy industry's deregulation schemes. Now Open Secrets reports AIG's contributions, from employees and related political action committees, to federal lawmakers totaled $9.3 million over the last decade, with an exact 50%-50% split between Democrats and Republicans. AIG sure knows how to hedge its bets.
A newspaper reporter just called to ask about the state of privacy under electronic medical records, which will now be spreading thanks to $20 billion in the federal economic stimulus plan. Electronic medical records can help avoid medical mistakes, like those suffered by Dennis Quaid's newborn twins, but the privacy protections under the stimulus bill need to improve.
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