Sent: February 4, 2013
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: Comment on File Number 4-637

February 04, 2013

Dear Members of the Securities and Exchange Commission:

Money was NEVER the goal of the founders of the USA. Whether based on a few persons or not, the ideals and principles are what have lived on, and what make America America. Truman admitted to forming secret government, but no one has ever taken it on and gotten rid of it. Corporations are NOT citizens and should not be given political power by allowing them to spend secretly into campaigns, or through lobbyists who Abramoff tells us just hand out cash to Congress and others.

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.

Thank you for considering my comment.

Sincerely,