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Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 11:13 AM
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About billionaires, banksters, and huge multinational corporations.
There is only one thing that is more important than money for billionaires, banksters, and huge multinational corporations.............

...more money.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 11:14 AM
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1. Chabge that to wealth, and you're dead-on
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 11:49 AM
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2. You're not the first to say that...
There’s only one thing that the ruling circles throughout
history have ever wanted, and that’s everything.

There’s only one thing they want: all the wealth, the
treasures, and the profitable returns, all the choice lands and
forest and game and herds and harvests and mineral deposits and
precious metals of the earth, all the productive facilities and
gainful inventiveness and technologies, all the control positions
of the state and other major institutions, all public supports and
subsidies, privileges and immunities, all the protections of the
law and none of its constraints, all the services and comforts
and luxuries and advantages of civil society with none of the
taxes and none of the costs. Every ruling class in history has
wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. Their
operational code is, We have a lot. We can get more. We want it
all. And if you don’t know that, you’re in a sad place. If you
know that and you don’t know anything else, you know more
than if you know everything else and you don’t know that.

-Michel Parenti, 1995.
www.suddenlysenior.com/PDf_files/Fascisim%20in%20US.pdf
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Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 07:37 PM
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3. The ruling class wants more........
no matter how much wealth and money they have...it is always more..

More money...

Greed, more greed and more..
How they get it, doesn't matter..
Wisconsin is a perfect example...
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jeanpalmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-15-11 08:03 PM
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4. And their essential ally
is the pied piper politician who facilitates their getting all these things while convincing people he is all that stands in the way of their getting everything.
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