Inequality

Obama received criticism about hot having fun charts and visual aids during his speech. perhaps he should have. perhaps he should have put these statistics on the board and then asked the voters if they like the direction this trend has been heading. And if they do then they are more then welcome to continue voting for the GOP.

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Gun Point

HUCKABEE: I don’t know anyone in America who is a more effective communicator [than David Barton.] I just wish that every single young person in America would be able to be under his tutelage and understand something about who we really are as a nation. I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced — at gun point no less — to listen to every David Barton message. And I think our country would be better for it. I wish it’d happen.

A Scandal

Every single moment...

At an event on the Lowest East Side:

Every single moment that we are stroking our beards and gazing at our navel and thinking about the world we’d like to be and singing “Kumbaya” is another day we’re not punching Bill O’Reilly in the nose.

Anthony Weiner [via]

“The aim of the corporate state is not to feed...

“The aim of the corporate state is not to feed, clothe or house the masses, but to shift all economic, social and political power and wealth into the hands of the tiny corporate elite. It is to create a world where the heads of corporations make $900,000 an hour and four-job families struggle to survive. The corporate elite achieves its aims of greater and greater profit by weakening and dismantling government agencies and taking over or destroying public institutions. Charter schools, mercenary armies, a for-profit health insurance industry and outsourcing every facet of government work, from clerical tasks to intelligence, feed the corporate beast at our expense. The decimation of labor unions, the twisting of education into mindless vocational training and the slashing of social services leave us ever more enslaved to the whims of corporations. The intrusion of corporations into the public sphere destroys the concept of the common good. It erases the lines between public and private interests. It creates a world that is defined exclusively by naked self-interest.”

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Chris Hedges (via azspot)

“Man.

“Man.

Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.

Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.

And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;

the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;

he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

--Dalai Lama

“Socialism never took root...

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

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John Steinbeck