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

[sinkingfeeling]

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

[F4lconF16]

1. And an economic system that mandates it. nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

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

[2naSalit]

4. ^^THIS^^

[Nay]

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?

[Wellstone ruled]

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!!!!

[hifiguy]

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."

[rurallib]

9. one of my favorite quotes

it so quickly sums up the cause of so much of our problems.

[ErikJ]

7. Yes, they,ve basically legalized the bribing of our representatives.

to corrupt and rig the system in their favor.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. "The comfort of the rich relies on an abundance of the poor." Voltaire