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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 08:31 PM
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2. K&R for Bill Moyers.
A Patriot and a Hero.
I really miss his weekly show on PBS.
Here is a Commentary from 2002 that I still remember:
"The vast inequality of this new Gilded Age didn't just happen.
Nature didn't ordain it, the market didn't require it, and Adam Smith's invisible hand doesn't sustain it.
What happened is the rich declared class war and spent what it took to win.


Not exactly a new story, of course, but the extraordinary new concentration of wealth and power created a juggernaut that makes it harder and harder for democracy to work for all.
The rich buy the laws and loopholes they want from Congress, and from the White House, they buy executive protection of their privileges.
So government winds up promoting the extremes instead of moderating them.

<snip>

Yes, the rich declared class war and won.
All that's left is for politics to divide up the spoils."---Bill Moyers, Sept 3, 2002

http://www.pbs.org/now/commentary/moyers7.html
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