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Thoughts to Ponder for October 11
"The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the Revolutionary War." -- Benjamin Franklin
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"A Plutocracy (a country or society governed by the wealthy) has a natural instinct to perpetuate and enlarge its own powers and by doing so slams the door of opportunity to challengers and reduces elections to theatrical duels between politicians who are marionettes worked by invisible strings.” ~ Bernard Weisberger ~
“There is no distinctive native American criminal class except Congress.”~ Mark Twain ~