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Happy Corporate People  Posted: Updated:  Mitt Romney got a lot
of press for telling a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that
"corporations are people." He did not go on to sing that Patti
Smith song, "People Have the Power."  But corporate "people"
certainly do. Their power was on display this week, both in
Washington and among the Republicans campaigning for the
nomination.  Ordinary People  Here's Romney's quote in context:
There's an interesting parsing of language going on here.
Corporate money does eventually go into some people's pockets,
of course, but Romney said "everything corporations earn
ultimately goes to the people." "The people" is a phrase that
refers to everyone -- the citizenry, the polis, the masses...
Romney's implying that corporate earnings go to all of us. The
truth is that executive compensation has never been greater when
it's compared to worker pay or average family incomes. That's
one reason why we've been experiencing