Recovery.gov To Get $18 Million Redesign

barbarai notes a report by ABC News's Rick Klein: "For those concerned about stimulus spending, the General Services Administration sends word tonight that $18 million in additional funds are being spent to redesign the Recovery.gov Web site. "Recovery.gov 2.0 will use innovative and interactive technologies to help taxpayers see where their dollars are being spent," James A. Williams, commissioner of GSA's Federal Acquisition Service, says in a press release announcing the contract awarded to Maryland-based Smartronix Inc. according to the ABC news blog."

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[NeutronCowboy]

Corporate personhood: the notion that a corporation is a person entitled to the same rights as a natural person, or some subset of those rights (e.g. due process, free speech, etc.)

Correct. However, I think if we give corporations personhood and all rights that come with it (or at least the significant parts), we ought to realize what kind of person corporations are: sociopaths. In other words, they would be the kind of person that would throw their grandmother down the stairs to collect insurance, cry many tears in court over their beloved grandma, then on the way home from court run a red light and drive over a blind girlscout because it got them home 10 seconds faster.

As such, I would like to propose that if corporations are given personhood, they are also slapped with the label "menace to society" the first time they are caught doing something illegal.