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sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts) Wed Apr 8, 2015, 12:37 PM Apr 2015

Here's a quote from 1850 about what's happening today.... [View all]

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.... [View all] 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