{"id":2822,"date":"2011-12-16T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2011-12-16T12:46:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:46:23","slug":"walmart-runs-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/16\/walmart-runs-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart runs for president!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Candidate-Walmart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2823\" title=\"Candidate Walmart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Candidate-Walmart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Candidate-Walmart.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Candidate-Walmart-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><strong>In the immortal words of Mitt Romney, &#8220;Corporations are people, my friend.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unlimited corporate spending on elections is the driving force in our democracy. Yet, there is a growing movement in this country to deny corporations the rights afforded to them by the Supreme Court of the United States. Los Angeles passed a resolution declaring that corporations are not people and money isn&#8217;t speech.<\/p>\n<p><strong>South Carolina Democrats want to put a resolution on the ballot asking the public to vote on corporate personhood.<\/strong> There are even people who would blame the lingering recession and growing inequality in our society on major corporations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That is why, today, I am officially announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.<\/strong> It&#8217;s time to take a stand and fight for those who have come under so much attack in recent months: the 1 percent. They need a strong voice in this race, and as America&#8217;s largest private employer and the world&#8217;s largest retailer, with over $480 billion in revenue in 2010, I am that voice.<\/p>\n<p>Some might scoff at such a notion, since no major corporation has ever even been elected to Congress. But this is America &#8211; where corporations are considered people and any retail conglomerate can grow up to be president.<\/p>\n<p>Please take a moment to check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/candidatewalmart.org\/\">web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the immortal words of Mitt Romney, &#8220;Corporations are people, my friend.&#8221; Unlimited corporate spending on elections is the driving force in our democracy. Yet, there is a growing movement in this country to deny corporations the rights afforded to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/16\/walmart-runs-for-president\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary","category-network-newsevents","category-sc-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}