Bill Moyers

Áine on July 21st, 2004 filed in Quotations

“The middle class and working poor are told that what’s happening to them is the consequence of Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand.’ This is a lie. What’s happening to them is the direct consequence of corporate activism, intellectual propaganda, the rise of a religious orthodoxy that in its hunger for government subsidies has made an idol of power, and a string of political decisions favoring the powerful and the privileged who bought the political system right out from under us.” — Bill Moyers, Keynote speech, New York University, June 3, 2004 [Source: Common Dreams | This is the Fight of Our Lives]

Read the rest of that page, Moyers *gets it*.

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