Bill Moyers: "Our Politicians Are Money Launderers in the Trafficking of Power and Policy"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Dec 5, 2011 | Bryan TX

Bill Moyers: "Our Politicians Are Money Launderers in the Trafficking of Power and Policy" | Truthout:

EXCERPT  | "... "So if belief in the “the dogma of democracy” seems only skin deep, there are reasons for it. During the prairie revolt that swept the Great Plains a century after the Constitution was ratified, the populist orator Mary Elizabeth Lease exclaimed: “Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules.”"
Why New York’s Zuccotti Park is filled with people is no mystery. Reporters keep scratching their heads and asking: “Why are you here?” But it’s clear they are occupying Wall Street because Wall Street has occupied the country. And that’s why in public places across the country workaday Americans are standing up in solidarity. Did you see the sign a woman was carrying at a fraternal march in Iowa the other day? It read: “I can’t afford to buy a politician so I bought this sign.” ... "

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