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Ikonoklast

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13. Isn't that strange? They plainly refuse to understand what might have been.

Reply to hifiguy (Reply #11)

Wed Sep 26, 2012, 04:28 PM

Sep 2012

FDR saved their bacon, pure and simple.

If things had gone on for one or two more years they way they were going before FDR saved the economy, there would have been no safe place a person of wealth could have hid in this country.

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Born on Third Base: What the Forbes 400 Really Says About Economic Equality & Opportunity in America [View all] Octafish Sep 2012 OP

Historically, there are two ways the economic playing field gets leveled. Ikonoklast Sep 2012 #1

My nice neighbor thinks the latter. Octafish Sep 2012 #3

We have a window to change that, and it is just now starting to open. Ikonoklast Sep 2012 #4

The hereditary plutocracy refused to realise hifiguy Sep 2012 #11

Isn't that strange? They plainly refuse to understand what might have been. Ikonoklast Sep 2012 #13

Friday Morning Kick! HangOnKids Sep 2012 #2

Alex Carey: Corporations and Propaganda -- The Attack on Democracy Octafish Sep 2012 #7

I just had occasion to look up Carey and this post came up bread_and_roses Apr 2013 #14

Why did you look him up? Did you see this? Octafish Apr 2013 #15

Yes bread_and_roses Apr 2013 #16

Thanks. It was a surprising omission. Octafish Apr 2013 #17

I got a taste of that this morning when I saw a nearly mile long line outside a new Goodwill store. Initech Sep 2012 #5

James Galbraith on Income Inequality Octafish Sep 2012 #8

Saturday morning kick! I remember when we were more honest about economic justice Overseas Sep 2012 #6

''Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society'' is how Oliver Wendell Holmes put it. Octafish Sep 2012 #9

And I had hoped that enough capitalists realized that in 2008 Overseas Sep 2012 #10

Yet the Horatio Alger myth still prevails Brother Buzz Sep 2012 #12