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• The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another.

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  Animal, People, Way

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• A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

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  Jobs, Government, Law

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.

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  New York, Punishment, Grace

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.

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  Half, Economic, Economy

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• Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

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  Children, Fifty, Today

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• If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value.

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  Wealth, Inflation, Protected

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• Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.

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  Gathering, Routine, News

  "All the King’s Media". www.thenation.com. November 3, 2005.

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• The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

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  Class, Odor, Authority

  "All the King’s Media". www.thenation.com. November 3, 2005.

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• The problem of modern democracy is rooted in its neglect of unorganized people.

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  People, Democracy, Problem

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.

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  Acting, World, Ancient

  William Greider (1998). “One World, Ready Or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society bingeing on fear makes itself vulnerable to far more profound forms of destruction than terror attacks. The "terrorism war", like a nostalgic echo of the cold war, is using these popular fears to advance a different agenda - the re-engineering of American life through permanent mobilization.

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  War, Echoes, Engineering

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• Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the tortuous, enraging story of how Congress enacted a law that instead of protecting against discrimination has turned 'the disabled' into a political punching bag.

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  Rights, Law, People

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• If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.

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  Rights, Done, Benefits

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• The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

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  Self, Dollars, Roles

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• In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

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  Prison Time, Doe, Banking

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• If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

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  Country, Retirement, Years

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• The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

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  Globalization, Regimes, Instruments

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• Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

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  Democracy, World, Teach

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.403, Simon and Schuster

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• The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?

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  Government, Political, Dollars

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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