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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Mon Mar 4, 2019, 09:39 PM Mar 2019

Way past time to bring back phrase 'malefactors of great wealth'!!

Wasn't that Teddy Roosevelt's term?

Coined about the 'movers and shakers' of the Gilded Age?

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Way past time to bring back phrase 'malefactors of great wealth'!! (Original Post) bobbieinok Mar 2019 OP

Or "robber barons" TwilightZone Mar 2019 #1

I agree Dirty Socialist Mar 2019 #2

Yes, TR, who got us the anti-trust laws. elleng Mar 2019 #3

What!!! guillaumeb Mar 2019 #4

LOTS, ya know!!! elleng Mar 2019 #5

I Love Dusting The River Mar 2019 #6

TwilightZone

(25,429 posts)

1. Or "robber barons"

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 09:43 PM

Mar 2019

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Dirty Socialist

(3,252 posts)

2. I agree

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 09:43 PM

Mar 2019

We're in the second Gilded Age.

elleng

(130,768 posts)

3. Yes, TR, who got us the anti-trust laws.

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 09:44 PM

Mar 2019

'Too much cannot be said against the men of wealth who sacrifice everything to getting wealth.'

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

4. What!!!

Reply to elleng (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 10:10 PM

Mar 2019

A GOP President? What happened between then and now?

elleng

(130,768 posts)

5. LOTS, ya know!!!

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 10:14 PM

Mar 2019

The River

(2,615 posts)

6. I Love Dusting

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2019, 10:31 PM

Mar 2019

the cobwebs off of antique verbiage.
Well done!

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