My but haven't we drifted far......
"Unembarrassed by attachments to noble families, hereditary lines and successions, or any considerations of royal blood, even the pious mystery of holy oil had no more influence than that other of holy water: the people universally were too enlightened to be imposed on by artifice; and their leaders, or more properly followers, were men of too much honour to attempt it. Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretense of miracle or mystery, which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favour of the rights of mankind.
-- President John Adams: "A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America" ( 1787-88 )
Now we live in a country with a government bought and paid for by self-serving corporate interests who would sell out their very country if they thought it would please the share-holders.....oh wait, they already have.....
As a friend stated.....
If you want to know what corporatists and supply-siders have in mind for U.S. workers, all you have to do is look at the wages, working conditions, standard of living, and the rights of labor in the countries where they love to export their factories and jobs....
"Unembarrassed by attachments to noble families, hereditary lines and successions, or any considerations of royal blood, even the pious mystery of holy oil had no more influence than that other of holy water: the people universally were too enlightened to be imposed on by artifice; and their leaders, or more properly followers, were men of too much honour to attempt it. Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretense of miracle or mystery, which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favour of the rights of mankind.
-- President John Adams: "A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America" ( 1787-88 )
Now we live in a country with a government bought and paid for by self-serving corporate interests who would sell out their very country if they thought it would please the share-holders.....oh wait, they already have.....
As a friend stated.....
If you want to know what corporatists and supply-siders have in mind for U.S. workers, all you have to do is look at the wages, working conditions, standard of living, and the rights of labor in the countries where they love to export their factories and jobs....
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