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Life as food for the gods.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln
a closet full of faceless nameless pay more for less emptiness
Ill make you scrounge, in my executive lounge
you pay less tax, but Ill gain more back
Grace Jones:
Be as free as you can and stay there. It starts where you do.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
Cesar Chavez
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining...and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away
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- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, 1837
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor
Helen Keller