“Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.”
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Francis I
“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy.
Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.”
Will Rogers, St. Petersburg Times, Nov 26, 1932
“Much like Herbert Hoover, Barack Obama is a man attempting to realize a stirring new vision of his society without cutting himself free from the dogmas of the past, without accepting the inevitable conflict. Like Hoover, his is bound to fail.”
Kevin Baker, Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and the Brightest Blow it Again, Harper’s
“In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest.
Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all — by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians — be participating in its destruction?
Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.”
Wendell Berry
“Trickle-down theory – the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
Upton Sinclair
Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will Rogers
Warren Celli, BoxtheFox.com
“Deception is the strongest political force on the planet.”
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Politics is the ruination of the country. Elect me for life, then they won’t have to cater to any interest. If you elect one party to power, why the other party don’t do any useful work for the next 4 years, only try to work some scheme to get back in. But if they were elected for life they wouldn’t have to worry. The minute a man knows he can’t get a political job, he may turn to something useful. A business that’s doing well don’t change people every 4 years. A man don’t no more than get into the White House and learn where the Ice Box is than he has to get out again, then he is never any good for hard work again.
WILL ROGERS, Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies
@http://www.boxthefox.com/ +1000
The Real Gettysberg Address
“One score and seven years ago, I conspired with Midwestern and Northeastern banksters, not to free the slaves, but rather to change the form of slavery of all slaves, of all color, that fall under the wealthy elite’s subjugation.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether the rich man will foolishly continue to feed, clothe, and house his slaves on plantation property, or whether, from this day forward, all slaves, of all color, through the ruses of democracy, freedom, hope, opportunity, change, and great wealth, can be made responsible for their own upkeep. It is all together fitting and proper that all slaves should be free to scurry from corporate plantation to corporate plantation, of all types and kinds of production, and beg for subsistence employment.
But, in a larger sense, we can not effect — we can not implement — we can not advance — this noble and elite cause, without devising a system to honor those gullible souls who were conned into dying here. It is for us, the living elite, to be dedicated to creating that unfinished task so that they may not have died in vain. And so, from this day forward, all slaves of all color will be rated with a bankster FICO score that will reveal; their gullibility, their willingness and ability to obsequiously conform and supply their own upkeep, and, most importantly, their potential to be further exploited. In so doing, we will have affirmed, that this nation, now mesmerized by deception, the strongest political force on the planet, will, under God, continue to serve only the selfish interests of the most deceptive, rich, and powerful, and that they may not perish from the earth.”
“Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the National Debt.” – Herbert Hoover