“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”
Erich Fromm
“Over the last thirty years, the United States has been taken over by an amoral financial oligarchy, and the American dream of opportunity, education, and upward mobility is now largely confined to the top few percent of the population. Federal policy is increasingly dictated by the wealthy, by the financial sector, and by powerful (though sometimes badly mismanaged) industries such as telecommunications, health care, automobiles, and energy. These policies are implemented and praised by these groups’ willing servants, namely the increasingly bought-and-paid-for leadership of America’s political parties, academia, and lobbying industry.
If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.
The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position as a prosperous, fair, well-educated nation.”
Charles Ferguson, Predator nation
“Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.”
Thomas Clement Douglas
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John Muir, the man given credit for influencing the gooberment to establish the national parks in America, actually worked a few years for E H Harriman, a 19th century oligarch who owned one of the transcontinental railways built in the late 19th century. During an interview of Muir by a group of journalists, one of the journalists tried to troll Muir by asking him, “Do you think you will ever be as wealthy as E H Harriman?” All the other journalists thought the joke was quite funny and laughed uproariously.
Muir replied, “I am already far wealthier that Mr. Harriman.”
The callow journo said, “Yeah? How’s that?”
Muir said, ” I already have everything I will ever need, but E. H. Harriman, no matter how rich he grows, will never have enough.”