"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." -- Supreme Court Justice Lois Brandeis --(quoted in, of all places, Forbes Magazine)
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." -- Frederick Douglass
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -- Winston Churchill
Our US consciousness has been raised by more examples of "corporate welfare." (As of 2014,) 965 large companies now get 110 Billion dollars in state & local corp. subsidies, (Documented by taxpayer watchdog group Good Jobs First.) Greider looks eerily prescient. <From Daily Kos blog. 3. 9. '14>
"As it stands now, in the name of fostering prosperity, Americans are helping to finance enterprises that do not reciprocate the loyalty." -- William Greider, Who Will Tell The People, the betrayal of American democracy, P. 355, 1992
I can't find the citation, but I trust the original source: that's 2/3 of the amount which the crash of '08-09 removed from the global economy. Terrifying.
