Bill Moyers Quotes About Economy

Quotes about: Economy

• David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day's work... In the world of David Rockefeller it's hard to tell where business ends and politics begins

  Bill Moyers

  Men, Class, Nwo

• Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps.

  Bill Moyers

  Running, Hands, Fields

  Source: progressive.org

• Lyndon Johnson believed the poor deserved a better life than the economy was providing them. He thought private power and greed had to be checked by a vibrant democracy.

  Bill Moyers

  Greed, Democracy, Economy

  Source: progressive.org

• The struggle of ordinary people for a decent living, for security, is as old as the republic, but it's taken on a new and urgent edge. Instead of shared prosperity our political system has now produced a winner-take-all economy.

  Bill Moyers

  Struggle, Taken, People

  "Jacob Hacker & Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. March 1, 2012.

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