It's a crying shame how rich people are being treated these days. You hear a lot about their sufferings daily, especially if you read The Wall Street Journal. If black sharecroppers hadn't invented the blues down there on the Mississippi Delta a hundred years or so ago, hedge-fund managers and bank CEOs would be coming up with that genre about now. Instead of "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," they'd be singing "Nobody Loves Me When I'm Up and Tax-Exempt." The blues ain't nothin' but a rich man gone sad.
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Jeff Immelt was on 60 Minutes. Immelt's the head of GE, a company that managed to eliminate thousands of jobs under his stewardship. In his interview, he expressed consternation that more Americans weren't cheering on the success of corporations like his. He honestly couldn't understand why any patriotic American wouldn't wish his company well -- even as he was telling Leslie Stahl that corporations have no civic responsibility, nor any patriotic duty. Corporations answer, he said, to a higher authority -- their stockholders -- who must reap ever-higher profits.
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So, while having no civic or patriotic requirements, corporations want unlimited "Free $peech" rights via campaign contributions to buy politicians with no documentation of where the money came from. 
I have old friends and family who firmly believe corporations are people, and that the problem is with the government/politicians who have just too much control over business.  
I just don't know what to say to them anymore.  I've stopped talking so much to those who are convinced of the above, brainwashed by blaring Faux News (GOP TV) from multiple TV's and their home page.  
They don't seem to mind my ignoring them, and I know I don't mind not having the angst of trying to maintain relationships and be nice to them.