We get all worked up about a Mexican sneaking across the border for a job cutting the heads off turkeys, but we allow the auto industry to challenge California's new auto emissions requirements in court.
This is screwball thinking of the first magnitude. The emissions standards were voted into law by the flesh-and-blood American citizens of California through their flesh-and-blood representatives, while the court challenge comes from a corporation which is nothing but a pile of money wanting to become a bigger pile of money.
Many of the owners of this corporation are foreigners. They should have no standing in our courts. Neither should their pile of money. Why don't we get worked up about this? Why do we allow corporations to pretend to be persons? This is one big reason American democracy does not work.
Jim Van Der Pol
Kerkhoven
