Wed Apr 8, 2015, 11:37 AM

Here's a quote from 1850 about what's happening today....

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Frederic Bastiat - 1850

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Here's a quote from 1850 about what's happening today.... (Original post)	sinkingfeeling	Apr 2015	OP
And an economic system that mandates it. nt	F4lconF16	Apr 2015	#1
and they have suceeded in perfecting it to a point that it is destroying our planet.	Tuesday Afternoon	Apr 2015	#2
^^THIS^^	2naSalit	Apr 2015	#4
^^YEP^^ It's a new situation for the human race as a whole (not	Nay	Apr 2015	#5
Thanks for posting this.	Wellstone ruled	Apr 2015	#3
This classic quote from John Kenneth Galbraith	hifiguy	Apr 2015	#6
one of my favorite quotes	rurallib	Apr 2015	#9
Yes, they,ve basically legalized the bribing of our representatives.	ErikJ	Apr 2015	#7
"The comfort of the rich relies on an abundance of the poor." Voltaire	Tierra_y_Libertad	Apr 2015	#8

Response to sinkingfeeling (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2015, 11:39 AM

F4lconF16 (3,747 posts)

1. And an economic system that mandates it. nt

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Response to sinkingfeeling (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2015, 11:43 AM

Tuesday Afternoon (56,912 posts)

2. and they have suceeded in perfecting it to a point that it is destroying our planet.

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Response to Tuesday Afternoon (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:20 PM

2naSalit (31,481 posts)

4. ^^THIS^^

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Response to Tuesday Afternoon (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:31 PM

Nay (10,748 posts)

5. ^^YEP^^ It's a new situation for the human race as a whole (not

so new for local populations in the past -- Easter Island, etc.). Thanks to rich folks and their sycophants (both D and R and no affiliation), the people themselves have no way to extricate ourselves. There's no place to run, and no discernible way to stop them -- they don't even live here. They can't be shot or hanged or guillotined, they can't be bankrupted. Now what?

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Response to sinkingfeeling (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2015, 11:51 AM

Wellstone ruled (27,494 posts)

3. Thanks for posting this.

Recall the late Senator Hubert Humphrey using this reference during his Primary Election campaign in 1961. How true it is and relative to what we see today. Justification of Greed!!!!

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Response to Wellstone ruled (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 8, 2015, 01:44 PM

hifiguy (33,688 posts)

6. This classic quote from John Kenneth Galbraith

sums it all up:

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

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Wed Apr 8, 2015, 02:37 PM

rurallib (52,518 posts)