Scott Adams warned of this trend in "Dilbert & the Way of the Weasel." Forget competition. No, capitalism breeds monopolies, it's a "financial system designed to transfer money from lesser weasels to greater weasels. Someday, if everything goes according to plan, one supreme weasel will have all the money and everyone else will be his or her domestic servant." .... ...99% of America's wealth remains concentrated in Wall Street's "Conspiracy of Weasels." They know only one thing, blindly "follow the money. If you took the same amount of money" traded daily on the NYSE, "sealed it in drums and dropped it in the ocean, 4 billion weasels would drown just trying to be near it." When Obama signs the so-called reform bill, blow a goodbye kiss to our last great hope for true reform: Obama failed. True reform will never happen. Wall Street gains more power fighting every new reform bill, making massive investments in lobbyists. Witness their rapid return to power since near-bankruptcy in 2008. No, the Weasel Conspiracy members didn't drown, they rule America. They killed democracy, destroyed capitalism and are consolidating vast new wealth and power in the hands of this conspiracy of Wall Street, Corporate CEOs, the Forbes 400 and Washington's pay-to-play power-players. Result: Less than one million co-conspirators control a nation of 310 million citizens. Here are 12 more warnings exposing the Weasel Conspiracy's phony financial reforms:
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...99% of America's wealth remains concentrated in Wall Street's "Conspiracy of Weasels." They know only one thing, blindly "follow the money. If you took the same amount of money" traded daily on the NYSE, "sealed it in drums and dropped it in the ocean, 4 billion weasels would drown just trying to be near it."
When Obama signs the so-called reform bill, blow a goodbye kiss to our last great hope for true reform: Obama failed. True reform will never happen. Wall Street gains more power fighting every new reform bill, making massive investments in lobbyists. Witness their rapid return to power since near-bankruptcy in 2008.
No, the Weasel Conspiracy members didn't drown, they rule America. They killed democracy, destroyed capitalism and are consolidating vast new wealth and power in the hands of this conspiracy of Wall Street, Corporate CEOs, the Forbes 400 and Washington's pay-to-play power-players. Result: Less than one million co-conspirators control a nation of 310 million citizens.
Here are 12 more warnings exposing the Weasel Conspiracy's phony financial reforms:
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Messiahs are a really Bad Thing.
Whether or not that's what Herbert was trying to say - I lack the knowledge to state one way or the other - I submit it's hard to argue against. Seems to me as soon as the Great Sky Father enters reason flees.
¹ With new books STILL being published 14 years after Herbert ate it!
Don't read past the first volume. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Thought the chapter where the The Worm insists on a restructure of the basis of amortization of the Space Guild's ships one of the more moving passages in all of Science Fiction.
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but I'll take your word that its a literary masterwork. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Newt Gingrich was the one who succeeded by creating and sucking the withered members of this kind of chaos. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
