Only until the individual realizes his mind is being manipulated and (in my case) anger takes hold and here is some advice to those who are just waking up and anger arises, don't let your anger get the best of you but put it to constructive, as opposed to destructive, work for you.

If you ask me, this quote is behind the times because who loses and who doesn't is already known as are the goods to be stolen. Who's the new president going to be in 2012? Just by seeing who the most popular candidate is. The party he/her belongs to doesn't matter as both parties are 2 sides of the same coin, such coin belonging to the elite bankers who pull the strings behind the curtains.

Long before anybody is actually elected into office they are bought and paid for by the banking elite and if any politician today fails to make mention of this, the main controlling power behind the power, then he is already lost to us and belongs to the elite. It is up to us to ask the critical questions about the banking elite to any and all of any politician running for office in America. The real enemy are the bankers who pocket the coin with the democrats on one side and republicans on the other. Unless our politicians break out of this 2 party war and come together as Americans to take out the real power in Washington, the same ole same ole will continue in America and the further we will sink into the abyss called American politics and the closer we come to losing our country and it will no longer belong to the American freeman (woman). Wake up people, we must break out of this 2 party way of dealing with our politics.-------"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks." Lord Acton

Well said Mr. Paine, well said.

Ben, Orem. It could be read he doesn't at all believe liberty is a privelege to be conferred by anybody but those that work at it and thus earn the status of freeman after learning how valuable the status is.I don't know the speaker of the quote but that is the way I read it if it does anythiing to clear up the matter.

"It's true, the price of liberty, in deaths, is much less the cost of slavery wherein deaths from slave masters number more than those fighting to keep a people free from the chains of repression." -- Joseph Stalin. Need I say more?

This is when one aristocrat desires the fortune of another aristocrat.

I suppose if one looks at equality in those terms the statement is true but to me there is a whole lot more important things to desire than equality to my boss.

This means the market is being minipulated by the unjust because they seem to know the results of the market and therefore get out before the financial crash comes.

Exactly Justin. Hardly detected because hardly needed.

Transparency! Where is the transparency??!!

When government, in particular the U.S., operates the way it's supposed to, including the checks and balances of the citizen both through his representatives but also with his power in the jury box the infinite capacity to do harm would be minimized.

Less government is not the answer, less POWER to the government no matter what its size is what is needed.

Sounds exactly like the good ole united States of America today.

Government can do something for the people as far as people let them do it. At that point, a line is crossed.

Bravo E Archer!

RBESRQ,.....Your arrogance and lack of allowing for error or to understand what you read, is proving to undermine the facade of of your position.

The problem lies with the individuals who do not believe "that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go." How can Americans not see this blind patriotism which states my country right or wrong, both militarily and/or domestic?

Putting faith in the political order is a set up for a huge let down when the individual discovers his wants or even simple needs, can no longer be supplied by those they have faith in. So much for secular faith.

Putting faith in the political order is a set up for a huge let down when the individual discovers his wants or even simple needs can no longer supply them. So much for secular faith.

A genius in his time and his writings genuis for all time.

Sure, until the children discovered what democracy is and took out Mommy at the polls.

Good comment warren.

Waffler, yes I do have faith and optimism but wall street is not the only place Americans need to cleanup as well. For instance, the left and right sides of both political parties who, like the wall street yes men are just doing what the real bosses of politics and commerce are the elite of the banking industry. Through their power over money and the production of it they are the real enemy of America. Thanks for the compliment Waffler, it's not often I get one from you.

This country is full of power control junkies who are not happy unless they are controlling something even if it's a McDonalds managerial positiion all the way to some corporate CEO involving billions of federal debt notes. It is the continuing competition in these halls of power grabbing that marks our country for it's coming dowfall. Stocks up? Suck it up, as this is just what they expect. This administration has nothing but the best for you and your family. HaHa.