laz
what lincoln forsaw is only just beginning to unfold.
"Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. "
if you do not think that the arms industry has exerted influence, or that lobby groups representinig corporate interests have not infested washington
and have steered government policy to line thier pockets than you are so far outside of the realm of reality that i doubt that you can be reasoned with.
there are few, and i mean few people that i have spoken to who think that the war in iraq is actually being driven by anything more than a corporate grab for oil.
to quote a good friend of mine...something that put it into perspective for me...
"i'll tell you what, im going to be the first one to open a hot dog and t-shirt stand at the tigres-euphrates golf and raquet club."
he said this as we were watching the first bombs exploding in baghdad.
unfortunately, i am related to many of these people.
george seros is your fear? why? because he is using the same tactics as the swift boaters used in discrediting kerry? or perhaps you feel that having money should mean that you shouldnt be entitled to exert influence. perhaps you think that we should just let the ship burn while those things that you seem to be interested in are eroded beyond repair.
corporations are dangerous due to thier lack of personality rather than star power. enron, worldcom and others have managed to rape the people of thier money with little, if any regard for anything beyond the petty greed of thier sad officers not to mention that the punishments that they have recieved have been nil.
in hindsight, i might have mentioned that i would take the insight of a president far faster than one whos experience includes a doctrine of spending a great deal of his time on his bellybutton playing a video game. myself included. of course.
but its something aint it?
