Quotes of the Week

or maybe just the day, since things are moving so quickly; but they'd last at least a week during less "interesting" times . . .

From honest posters at a forum I frequent:

"We've seen this throughout history. Those Masters of the Universe are merely pirates and bullies, and they must be firmly dealt with. As in dealt out of the game . . . .

"the people must act. They can't sit around whining, killing themselves, their families, or strangers. They have to get up in the morning, feed everybody, maintain the infrastructure, and stop giving power away to the far-off corporations. We're going to do a Venezuela, eventually. The sooner we start, the sooner things get better." (Thanks, Demeter!)

and

"Last week I was accused by my some readers of being a socialist. First of all, let me say that 'socialist' is not an insult. Most Scandinavian societies with much better standards of living and far higher life expectancies than ours are democratic socialist. E.g., Canada, Ontario . . . has been named the best place on earth to live by a United Nations survey that weighed such variables as wealth, health, and social justice. So maybe we should all have a more open mind to the idea of social democracy.

"The irony however, is that I myself come from Soviet Russia. No one knows the horrors of collectivist thought and the ineptitude of the communist system better than I. I am actually a big believer in free markets, which through competition produce creative wonderful products and services we all enjoy. What I despise, are rigged markets. I hate Vegas for that very reason, because it provides the illusion of success while creating the reality of theft. Unfortunately, over the past decade Wall Street has adopted the Las Vegas model of business, and we have all been grifted on a scale far greater than any con job ever done. Rigged markets in my opinion are just as evil as collectivist governments because they concentrate the power in the hands of small group of elite leaders that do not reward merit but promote corruption and graft. (Thanks, UpInArms!)

Our gov't is a long, long way from doing what NEEDS to be done.