Jun 6

Written by: Bill Falzett
6/6/2008 12:56 PM

  Here are some collected thoughts on the state of things today. I hope you use these in your talking points to people. Remember that in spite of what the conservative radicals might say, the results contradict their words. Look at results not intent.

Thanks to Tom Feeley of Information Clearing House for these quotations:

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power." : Benito Mussolini

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy." : Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General

"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy" : John Pierpont Morgan
 
"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
 
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavour to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." : Abraham Lincoln
 "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson." : Franklin D. Roosevelt

Thanks to Howard Zinn for these:

The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (to which Eleanor Roosevelt was a contributor) declared that decent wages, food, housing, health care, and education are the right of all people.

"Capitalism has always been a failure for thelower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes" This is due to the great accumulation of wealth in the top 1-5 percent of the population. (my note)

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