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To: koan who wrote (546045)	1/25/2010 6:47:29 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577321

People who own stock in Goldman Sachs do not have any say. If that's true about Goldman Sachs (which is unlikely) it isn't true in general. Which is not to say some individual small shareholder has any noticeable impact, or that day to day collections of them, or most large shareholders normally determine policy, but then the same holds true for individual voters, or most big political groups in democratic elections for government. More importantly its no really relevant to the either point. Its totally irrelevant to the "state created entity" point, and the "constitutional rights are applied to corporations in other instances" point. As for the "real persons" point - Corporations are people acting in concert even if they are normally isolated from their shareholders. And if shareholders are getting shafted to a sufficient extent, then if any regulatory or legislative solution is called for it would be one that dealt directly with the problem, not violating the first amendment by having congress pass a law "abridging the freedom of speech".