The United States of Plutocracy
By William Pfaff
It would be cheaper for all concerned if business were directly to pay senators and congressmen and eliminate the middlemen, the parasites that live on the surplus money in this system, paid for their ability to persuade both sellers and buyers (so to speak) that they are providing a service by facilitating the bargain. Elections now cannot take place without them. Continue
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QUOTE(Snuffysmith @ Sep 11 2009, 10:49 PM) 
The United States of Plutocracy
By William Pfaff
It would be cheaper for all concerned if business were directly to pay senators and congressmen and eliminate the middlemen, the parasites that live on the surplus money in this system, paid for their ability to persuade both sellers and buyers (so to speak) that they are providing a service by facilitating the bargain. Elections now cannot take place without them. Continue
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23472.htm
By William Pfaff
It would be cheaper for all concerned if business were directly to pay senators and congressmen and eliminate the middlemen, the parasites that live on the surplus money in this system, paid for their ability to persuade both sellers and buyers (so to speak) that they are providing a service by facilitating the bargain. Elections now cannot take place without them. Continue
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23472.htm
US citizens must roll back the decision that the corporation is a Person and has all the rights of a person. If we fail to do this the human social system, as we know it, can not survive another 50 years...
QUOTE(rla @ Sep 12 2009, 07:26 AM)
US citizens must roll back the decision that the corporation is a Person and has all the rights of a person. If we fail to do this the human social system, as we know it, can not survive another 50 years...
Same argument William Jennings Bryan made 100 years ago (case was Santa Clara vs Southern Pacific Railway).
He did not prevail.
But we did.
QUOTE(jeffmoskin @ Sep 12 2009, 09:36 AM)
QUOTE(rla @ Sep 12 2009, 07:26 AM)
US citizens must roll back the decision that the corporation is a Person and has all the rights of a person. If we fail to do this the human social system, as we know it, can not survive another 50 years...
Same argument William Jennings Bryan made 100 years ago (case was Santa Clara vs Southern Pacific Railway).
He did not prevail.
But we did.
How much longer do you think we can?
QUOTE(rla @ Sep 12 2009, 07:47 AM)
How much longer do you think we can?
"The God-made man will outlast the man-made God" with apologies to WJB. But whether we will outlast peak oil is another matter entirely.
QUOTE(jeffmoskin @ Sep 12 2009, 04:04 PM)
QUOTE(rla @ Sep 12 2009, 07:47 AM)
How much longer do you think we can?
"The God-made man will outlast the man-made God" with apologies to WJB. But whether we will outlast peak oil is another matter entirely.
Actually, I think we allow our opinion makers to make too much of the Oil issue...
QUOTE(rla @ Sep 12 2009, 07:18 PM)
QUOTE(jeffmoskin @ Sep 12 2009, 04:04 PM)
QUOTE(rla @ Sep 12 2009, 07:47 AM)
How much longer do you think we can?
"The God-made man will outlast the man-made God" with apologies to WJB. But whether we will outlast peak oil is another matter entirely.
Actually, I think we allow our opinion makers to make too much of the Oil issue...
It is primarily a way of legitamitizing our dominating foreign policy in protection of the Empire that noone admits
to having...
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