1816 - Thomas Jefferson "Those seeking profit, were they given total freedom, would not be the ones to trust to keep government pure and our rights secure. Indeed, it has always been those seeking wealth who were the source of corruption in government". Sound familiar. Several Supreme Court decisions in the last decades has made "corporations are people too". Oddly enough current Justice Roberts opined against this then. So much for Democracy. Welcome to an Oligarchy. A "small group of people who have control of a country or institution". Ie. Billionaires in control of us for themselves.