Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. We have a single system, he wrote, and in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses. : Gore Vidal - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire If a baseball player slides into home plate and, right before the umpire rules if he is safe or out, the player says to the umpire - Here is $1,000. What would we call that? We would call that a bribe. If a lawyer was arguing a case before a judge and said, Your honor before you decide on the guilt or innocence of my client, here is $1,000. What would we call that? We would call that a bribe. But if an industry lobbyist walks into the office of a key legislator and hands her or him a check for $1,000, we call that a campaign contribution. We should call it a bribe. : Janice Fine - Dollars and Sense magazine The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power. : President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:11:25 +0000
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