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Markets Are Interested In Profits And Profits Only; Service, Quality, And General Affluence Are Different Functions Altogether. The Universal, Democratic Prosperity That Americans Now Look Back To With Such Nostalgia Was Achieved Only By A Colossal Reigning In Of Markets, By The Gargantuan Effort Of Mass, Popular Organizations Like Labor Unions And Of The People Themselves, Working Through A Series Of Democratically Elected Governments Not Daunted By The Myths Of The Market.

As You Watch The World Crumble, Try Taking Your Armageddon With This Sprinkling Of Irony: Over The Last Three Decades, Business Has Got Virtually Everything It Wanted, And Its Doomsday Scenario From The 1970s Has Come True Because Of It.

There Is Something Uniquely Depressing About The Fact That The National Portrait Gallery’s Version Of The Barack Obama “hope” Poster Previously Belonged To A Pair Of Lobbyists. Depressing Because Mr. Obama’s Washington Was Not Supposed To Be The Lobbyists’ Washington, The Place We Learned To Despise During The Last Administration.

Republicans Run The Machine When It's Their Turn, And Then Hand The Wheel Over To Democrats When The Public Has Had Enough.

Liberal That I Am, I Support Health-care Reform On Its Merits Alone. My Liberal Blood Boils, For Example, When I Read That Half Of The Personal Bankruptcies In This Country Are Brought On, In Part, By Medical Expenses.