"We are so close to losing our democracy to the mercenary class, it's as if we were leaning way over the rim of the Grand Canyon, and all that's needed is a swift kick in the pants -- look out below! The predators in Washington are only this far from monopoly control of our government. They bought the political system -- lock, stock, and pork barrel -- making change from within impossible."
The above clip is an excerpt from a speech Moyers gave recently at the Brennan Institute. Click here for an excellent post on Daily Kos by teacherken. He links to an edited version of that speech. Another excerpt:
Why are record numbers of Americans on food stamps? Because record numbers of Americans are in poverty. Why are people falling through the cracks? Because there are cracks to fall through. It is simply astonishing that in this rich nation more than 21 million Americans are still in need of full-time work, many of them running out of jobless benefits, while our financial class pockets record profits, spends lavishly on campaigns to secure a political order that serves its own interests and demands that our political class push for further austerity. Meanwhile, roughly 46 million Americans live at or below the poverty line and, with the exception of Romania, no developed country has a higher percent of kids in poverty than we do. Yet a study by scholars at Northwestern University and Vanderbilt finds little support among the wealthiest Americans for policy reforms to reduce income inequality.
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