February 2, 2013
Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:
It's long past time to end secret political spending by corporations.
So I strongly support the SEC issuing a rule in the near future that would require publicly traded corporations to publicly disclose all their spending on political activities.
Both shareholders and the public deserve to know how much a given corporation spends on politics (directly and through intermediaries), and which candidates are being promoted or attacked.
What's the difference between a corrupt democracy and any other form of corrupt government?
Obama: "The rest of the world (God's: pop 7.0 billion (198 countries)) isn't stupid!" After all, isn't approximately one-third of that world already Microsoft free?
2008-04-03: Brazil, India, and China, which together count for more than a third of the world's population, all voted against Office Open XML last week.
Address : <http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/productivity_apps/207001577?_requestid=118181>
Patriotism begins with knowledge, not lies and propaganda. Most of society, including the majority of all the world's Christianity, prefers the knowledge.
-Ron Wike
Vietnam veteran
Sincerely,
Ronald Wike