[MD] The American Ruling Class

[plattholden at gmail.com]

On 10 Dec 2009 at 23:40, craigerb at comcast.net wrote:

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> [Platt} 
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> >  A politician is a different breed of cat from a businessman. 
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> Oh, if only it were the case.  Witness the revolving door between: 
> Goldman Sachs/Wall St.-->the (Independent?) Federal Reserve-->Dept. of Treasury 
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> Dept. of Defense-->defense contractors 
> Congress-->K St. lobbysts 
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> etc. 

I'll simply repeat what I wrote to John:

"Businessmen would love to go on 
about their business without interference from the pols, but since the 
pols have their fingers in every pie businessmen have no choice but to 
suck up to them. It was never intended to be that way in the U.S., but 
over the years the pols promised more and more cake and cookies to 
the masses, the masses sucked it up and so today you have millions 
feeding at and dependent upon the public trough with businessmen 
bearing the load. Suggest you read Orwell's "Animal Farm" to get a 
picture of what's really going on."

Platt