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Re: Some things never change

By: orda in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 07 Oct 11 5:55 PM | 97 view(s)
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So do we look to the old remedies now, too? Since the rich are already using the same play book.


One of the arguments put forward by the Robber Barons for their continued riches was that if the wealthy weren’t protected in their wealth, they wouldn’t create jobs for laborers, and that with their spending benefits would not trickle down to the working poor.

Cleveland wasn’t buying it: “He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor,” he told Congress bluntly. Trickle-down economics was, he said, “a glittering delusion.”

He complained about how agents of the wealthy were writing appropriation bills themselves, giving themselves more and more of the government’s money and protections. It had become an open secret that the very wealthy had brought under their control Congress itself.




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Re: Some things never change
By: orda in ALEA
Fri, 07 Oct 11 5:52 PM 		Msg. 05962 of 54959

Sounds familiar:

...exploited the working class to the point that much of America was experiencing riots and strikes, and flaunted their wealth.

“The arrogance of this assumption is unconcealed,” President Cleveland said in that 1888 State of the Union address.

It appears in the sordid disregard of all but personal interests, in the refusal to abate for the benefit of others one iota of selfish advantage, and in combinations to perpetuate such advantages through efforts to control legislation and improperly influence the suffrages of the people....

Our workingmen, enfranchised from all delusions and no longer frightened... [were getting restive and] will reasonably demand through such revision steadier employment, cheaper means of living in their homes, freedom for themselves and their children from the doom of perpetual servitude, and an open door to their advancement beyond the limits of a laboring class.

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