"Independent use of its paid workforce." I wonder if anyone considers the type of world we are trying to create. We seem willing to be lead by the nose by a desire for ideological consistency into a swamp of irrational and inhumane madness. Citizen's United represents some of the most blantant rejection of good and common sense so that we can say that we've made a earnest effort to practice materialism in its purest form. Debt slavery is libertarianism practiced right.But its three Republicans argued that because the work was part of an independent effort by the union, and didn’t involve contributions to the campaign itself, the law didn’t apply: A union or corporation’s “independent use of its paid workforce to campaign for a federal candidate post-Citizen's United was not contemplated by Congress and, consequently, is not prohibited by either the Act or Commission regulation.”