Sunday, January 20, 2013

All Over Again, Having Thrown Scorn and Derision on History


“Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags.”

Think that quote comes from some Occupy protester?  Nope.  Mary Elizabeth Lease, a populist.  In 1890.

Amazing how little sustained progress we seem to be capable of, eh? 

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