BS: Poor people are lazy says Bush

Subject: RE: BS: Poor people are lazy says Bush
From: Amos
Date: 11 Mar 04 - 08:19 PM

Yeah -- what Mick said, less the potato.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Poor people are lazy says Bush
From: Alice
Date: 13 Mar 04 - 01:14 PM

I was sad as I watched Bill Moyers on PBS last night give his farewell address to his fans. He is about to turn 70 and has decided to leave the television reporting he has done for so long. What a loss for us!

It was Don who posted the link to the speech - I posted the link to Professor Tsurumi's essay, which refers to Moyer's speech. It is Tsurumi's essay that started this whole thread, referring to when Bush was a student in the professor's business classroom.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Poor people are lazy says Bush
From: Alice
Date: 13 Mar 04 - 01:43 PM

More from Bill Moyer's speech and regarding the Gilded Age we now see being repeated by Bush and Rove....


"The historian Clinton Rossiter describes this as the period of "the great train robbery of American
                intellectual history." Conservatives – or better, pro-corporate apologists – hijacked the vocabulary of
                Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress", "opportunity", and "individualism" into tools for
                making the plunder of America sound like divine right. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was hijacked,
                too, so that conservative politicians, judges, and publicists promoted, as if it were, the natural order of
                things, the notion that progress resulted from the elimination of the weak and the "survival of the fittest."

                This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove – the reputed
                brain of George W. Bush – as the seminal age of inspiration for the politics and governance of America
                today.