Notable quotables: Corporatism and Democracy

[marmar]

"No (real) journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists."
-- Chris Hedges

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"Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent."
-- Steven E. Landsburg

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"Yes, our regulatory agencies are incompetent. But they are incompetent by design."
-- David Goldstein

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"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
--Aldous Huxley

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"Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun, And some with a fountain pen."
--Woody Guthrie

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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
--Lily Tomlin

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"....a CEO's dream team."
--Business Week writer Lorraine Woellert on corporate enthusiam over then-President George W. Bush's selections of Harriet Miers and John Roberts

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"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee."
--F. Lee Bailey

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"....we have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development."
--Glen Ford, publisher of The Black Commentator

[jody]

1. Benito Mussolini: "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger

of State and corporate power."

Adolf Hitler: "We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order."

[upi402]

2. Twain; To lodge all power in one party and keep it there...

... is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

I WANT AN OPPOSITION PARTY!!!
:argh:

[Baikonour]

3. This a personal fave.

“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
- Henry Ford