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You ask..."do you believe that I as a citizen should also be prohibited from writing and distributing my views about political candidates running for office?"

No. I do not believe in censorship overall, and especially not censorship for a citizen's opinion. That is how regimes such as Pinochet and Straussner existed. And even in the U.S. we've had Homeland Security censoring our speech. Freedom of speech is something I hold dear as a writer...even for politicians. It is the level of financing in political campaigns I hold to a standard. However, there are certain forms of speech simply used to incite. Hate speech should be forbidden from airwaves, web sites, and other public forums, IMO. Because it does nothing to improve society or inform, nor does it generate much of anything but discrimination for those it is trying to oppress.

As for being rewarded for doing a bad job, there are countless CEOs who are compensated very well for shutting down businesses when they are sold to holding companies. I worked for one. We were selling our fairly profitable company to Invensys at one point. It would have been one of their least profitable holdings, so I'm assuming they purchased it as a tax write off for their other holdings. They brought in a CEO with a great track record for losing money in companies. He immediately spent over a million dollars building a new confernce room. He was irritated that I saved over $300,000 annually in Marketing and PR expenses, which surprised me being naive at the time, because I thought that was a company goal. He wasted money all over and brought our profits to losses in one year. The company finally was downsized by 70% and then sold off again. Mission accomplished! We had gone from strong profits to huge losses almost overnight. He was sent packing with a $10M severance package and on to the next company for this "fine" job. And that was when I learned corporate strategy.

It is for reasons such as this that I do not believe in capitalism. It is not a system that promotes financial growth. It sucks the life out of a nation by replacing profits with national debt, just as the company I worked for demonstrates. You can see this in the U.S. economy today and our national debt. And the seasoned politicians know this and grab their profits too while the system entirely fails a country, just the same way communism and socialism enhances the wealth of politicians. I believe in Democracy, but not capitalism.