"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. " - Jay Gould

[rurallib]

And that is the crux of how the republicans can use working class people as puppets.
(Jay Gould was an obscenely wealthy financier whose hand seemed to be behind most of what was wrong w/America in the late 19th century)

[patrice]

1. Seriously considering this for my next street corner sign (at a Stop Light).

"I can hire 1/2 of the working class
to kill the other 1/2" - Jay Gould (American financier)

- or -

"I can hire one half of
the working class to
kill the other half."
- Jay Gould (American millionaire)

With some FACT supporting Single Payer on the other side. Say, some of the facts about where we rank re Health in the World.

Yep, I think that's a go.

BTW: I was just about as down as I can get when I logged on this morning. Thanks, for cheering me up ruralib.

:hi:

[patrice]

4. On Edit: make that - Jay Gould (Millionaire Financier)

[rurallib]

8. glad to help cheer you up but

that really isn't a cheerful quote. I am getting more and more in the dumps.

[patrice]

10. Reading it told me what to do next. Doing something helps me feel better. nt

[Orrex]

2. And to think that he seemed so reasonable in Bully for Brontosaurus

[Odin2005]

3. Wrong Gould.

You are thinking of the paleontologist Stephen J. Gould. :)

[Orrex]

5. Wait. Wasn't he the pianist?

[Odin2005]

11. That's Glenn Gould.

:)

[Orrex]

12. I thought he played Trapper John?

[Catshrink]

14. Nah that was Elliott...I tell ya, this thread is a Gould mine.

[billyoc]

6. Much more true today than in Gould's time.

[rurallib]

7. hard to believe but with instant news and 24X7 cable news

we have actually become dumber.

[NashVegas]

9. First You Have to Hire the Technical Class To Make Them Redundant

Oh, wait ...

[JVS]

13. "The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we hang them"-Lenin

[lpbk2713]

15. This is why rethuglicans and corporatists are always anti-union.

"Divide and conquer" is one of their most frequently used devices.
Unions stand in the way of their using that as a weapon.