Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Voices of Logic and Reason

Jeffery Sachs is a bright and outspoken man. Here he does a great job of explaining the source of angst being felt across this Nation and this Planet. Please take a few minutes and listen to him flesh out the rationale felt by so many.

Also recently Nobel Laureate Economist Paul Krugman wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times. His essay does a good job of explaining the consistent mis-representation of this movement for rational change. Here is is Op-Ed piece.
Paul Krugman's Panic of the plutocrats

‎"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




‎"Widespread poverty and concentrated wealth cannot long endure side by side in a democracy." -Thomas Jefferson




“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." ~ Josef Goebbles


"There's class warfare, all right,but it 's my class, the rich class, thats making war, and we're winning" ~ Warren Buffet




‎"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.......That, in its essence, is Fascism: “ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt