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Octafish

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37. Same group as the people who tried to overthrow FDR in 1933 had kids.
Mon Nov 10, 2014, 01:19 PM
Nov 2014

And they are the ones* screwing America now.

What's different today, is we don't have Smedley Butler or FDR to stop them.


Baron de Rothschild and Prescott Bush, share a moment and some information, back in the day.

* Of course, it's not just a few rich families's offspring who screw the majority today. They've hired help and built up the giant noise machine to continue their work overthrowing the progress FDR and the New Deal brought America for 80 years.

Why would the nation and world's richest people do that? Progress costs money. And they don't want to pay for it, even when they've gained seven times more wealth than all of history until 1981 put together.

Instead, whey continue to work -- legally, through government and lobbyists -- to amass even more, transferring the hard work and little wealth of the many onto themselves.

And instead of an armed mob led by a war hero, their weapon of enslavement is "Neo-Liberal Economics." To most Americans, that means Trickle-Down. To the planet, it means doom.

Forget the 1% [View all] Octafish Nov 2014 OP
The big fish eat the smaller fish. That's capitalism. Now we are starting to see the bigger fish rhett o rick Nov 2014 #1
''What would Goldman think?'' Octafish Nov 2014 #2
I got this right from the horses mouth. H. Clinton-Sachs will choose Goldman-Sachs as her running rhett o rick Nov 2014 #6
I am looking for the post that quoted Sen Sanders talking about the dangers of rhett o rick Nov 2014 #7
Bernie Sanders: “If I were to run for president, do you know how much money the Kochs would spend? Octafish Nov 2014 #10
Thank you so much. I didn't have it bookmarked. This is one of if not the most important rhett o rick Nov 2014 #12
"H. Clinton isn't afraid of the Powers To Be..." scarletwoman Nov 2014 #21
I am willing to give her brave. What I said was, being brave isn't why she isn't afraid of the PTB. rhett o rick Nov 2014 #22
Sorry, I was being sarcastic. scarletwoman Nov 2014 #24
Well I did a bad job of being sarcastic back. I got your post, but wasn't sure you got mine. rhett o rick Nov 2014 #26
LOL! scarletwoman Nov 2014 #27
One more thing that I need straightening out. If I were to look at your turning rhett o rick Nov 2014 #28
No. Only if you are the one who sets it in motion. scarletwoman Nov 2014 #30
You generally don't have to be very brave hifiguy Nov 2014 #44
If you walk with the biggest bully, you don't need to fear. If you challenge the bully, you'd rhett o rick Nov 2014 #45
Eventually there is only one fish left, and that fish then calls himself Emperor. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #17
It brings to mind this article from The Onion. smokey nj Nov 2014 #31
Thanks for posting. nm rhett o rick Nov 2014 #32
Damn skippy. HRC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman. hifiguy Nov 2014 #42
No wonder they can set in motion wars, "lone nuts" & whatever else they need to protect that wealth villager Nov 2014 #3
It's why they hate Castro n Free Cuba. Octafish Nov 2014 #11
Recently...Water Cannons, Tear Gas Unleashed on 100,000 Anti-Austerity Marchers in Brussels adirondacker Nov 2014 #4
Iceland Jailed Banksters Octafish Nov 2014 #39
I remember in college, my political science teacher telling us he believed the U.S. was run... C Moon Nov 2014 #5
My American Government class was taught with a text that rhett o rick Nov 2014 #9
K&R. Overseas Nov 2014 #8
Thanks for this Octafish malaise Nov 2014 #13
That is who I am always talking about, the .01%. People here don't fully realize what we are talking Rex Nov 2014 #14
K&R Can we spell OLIGARCHY? woo me with science Nov 2014 #15
The Bourgeoisie. The Capitalist Class, the Owning Class. The Investor Class. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #16
Debs... L0oniX Nov 2014 #19
One of my political heroes. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #20
Nothing pisses me off more than to hear these people talk about how hard they worked SomethingFishy Nov 2014 #23
Behind every great fortune is a great crime. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #29
When people tell me they got rich through 'hard work,' I always ask them "Whose?" - nt KingCharlemagne Nov 2014 #41
This should be one of the most rec'd ops ever on DU. L0oniX Nov 2014 #18
argh, to me this is just going in the wrong direction hfojvt Nov 2014 #25
I think the narrower 0.1% ctaylors6 Nov 2014 #34
+1 woo me with science Nov 2014 #35
I forgot-- what were we talking about? johnnyreb Nov 2014 #33
The jaw-dropping inequality of wealth in the U.S., in charts Octafish Nov 2014 #38
I really wonder if that "business plot" from the 1930s actually succeeded. Initech Nov 2014 #36
Same group as the people who tried to overthrow FDR in 1933 had kids. Octafish Nov 2014 #37
K&R for the original post and subsequent informative posts and links. JEB Nov 2014 #40
K&R This is very important reading. hifiguy Nov 2014 #43
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