Some Sunday morning wisdom with your coffee....Quotes on corporatism:

marmar

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Sun Aug-03-08 08:11 AM
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Some Sunday morning wisdom with your coffee....Quotes on corporatism:

"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. . . Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."

-- William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937

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"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money."

-- Alexis de Tocqueville

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"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling power. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing."

--President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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"I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the rape of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street."

-- General Smedley D. Butler, former U.S. Marine Commandant

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hobbit709

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Sun Aug-03-08 08:23 AM
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1. And this one

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed
corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a
trial of strength and bid
defiance to the laws of our country."
Thomas Jefferson, 1812

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PDittie

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Sun Aug-03-08 08:25 AM
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2. And Sinclair Lewis:

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."

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DailyGrind51

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Sun Aug-03-08 09:51 AM
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3. Don't forget Lincoln!

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and cause me to tremble for 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 its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic destroyed."

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Col. William F. Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864

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DailyGrind51

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Sun Aug-03-08 10:01 AM
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4. And, Mussolini

�Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power�

Benito Mussolini quotes (Italian dictator, 1883-1945)

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Smarmie Doofus

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Sun Aug-03-08 10:02 AM
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5. K and R # 4 nt

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rurallib

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Sun Aug-03-08 10:10 AM
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6. Off to the greatest page with you.

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bvar22

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Sun Aug-03-08 10:58 AM
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7. And this:

Edited on Sun Aug-03-08 11:04 AM by bvar22

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed."--- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

and

"Trying to eliminate Saddam ... would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq ... there was no viable 'exit strategy' ... Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land." (1998)
Source: A World Transformed---George HW �Poppy� Bush 1998

and

"The Democratic Party is a big tent, but there is no room for those who advance the agenda of the RICH at the expense of LABOR and the POOR!"----bvar22, 2001, posted to an anonymous BBS

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