George Carlin says this in the You Tube film referenced here yesterday.
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They want more for themselves, and less for everybody else.
They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking.
That doesn't help THEM.
They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table to figure out how badly they're getting f----d by a system that threw them overboard thirty f---ing years ago...
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He says "nobody seems to notice" --
they DO notice.
The knowledge has seeped in.
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"...the vanishing pension that disappears the moment that you go to collect it,
and now -- they're comin' for your social security money."
dictionary definition: "plutocracy" -- government or state in which the wealthy class rules
dictionary definition: "oligarchy" -- a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few
I read those two words more often in news stories lately -- I used to not know what they meant. They never came up.
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Imagining wealthy, privileged people "coming for" our social security money makes me think of "hearing hoofbeats" -- in his book All Too Human / a political education, George Stephanopoulos talks about 92 campapign & five years working for Clinton in White House -- Stephan....refers to "hearing hoofbeats" -- he says his Jewish friends have it in their DNA to listen for hoofbeats because of Cossacks coming to hurt them (remember in "Fiddler on the Roof"?) -- and he adds that Greeks hear hoofbeats, also -- Turks.
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The wealth of the nation has certainly shifted.
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