I'm making people think, the best way to get an answer is to provide the wrong one.

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There is a power behind the throne, and greater than the throne, which says to King and Parliament you shall or shall not go to war. You shall sustain the laws and constitution, or you shall suspend them both at our option. Which taxes as it pleases, and that without responsibility to any but stock holders. The reader can too easily divine the nature of this power, for it is now grinding America as well as England in the dust. It is the banking system, and its leader in this country has acknowledged, that by it alone, he and his class had the power to " make men willing to make sacrifices." It is done simply by lending and withdrawing at certain times and places, and taking advantage of scarcities of money artfully created to buy at sacrifices, and also to gain usury.

Blackstone truly has observed, that the outward form of government is of no importance. The government is in the real rulers who cause the laws to be enacted, and suspended as may best suit their own convenience. Again: It is to the immediate self-interest of nominating committee-men, to sell their votes to demagogues without principles, and for demagogues in Legislatures to sell their votes to their best patrons, and make fraudulent grants of monopolies, especial-privileges, and suspension acts. There is prima facie as well as other evidence that all this has been done, and only the theory of a republic now remains existent.

Thus in England also, when a man has moral influence, he is bought over by a place or pension, if to crush him would be dangerous. If very great, he then is made a peer, and all his opposition ceases. It is immediate self-interest from first to last, in every form of government alike. Even the greatest emperors are generally ruled by favorites, and are strangers to their people. When they operate against the immediate self-interest of courtiers, even the greatest have reason to tremble for their crowns or heads.

All governments are thus alike, and the only real difference of importance is in the administration of them. "That which is best administered is best." They are variable, and dependent on the master spirit who raises up himself above the law, and looks upon his sovereign as his instrument -a "cerimony," or mere puppet in his hands.. Sometimes it is true, the sovereign has the master mind, but this is not the case in general. In all countries, enquire who it is who can command the greatest funds and property, and there you will find the government. The outward pageantry is used merely to amuse the vulgar, who look only at externals, music, songs, banners, carriages. Editors, coachmen, legislators, judges, and counselors at law, alike with few exceptions all quiet their consciences in the mean time, on the plea of absolute necessity and say :

"You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live,'

and I submit. Shipmates starving on a raft at sea, will devour each other from necessity and mothers drink their offspring's blood when pressed by absolute necessity. It is necessity, operating on the means of Living, which now rules the world. Those of us not under that iron crown, have reason to bless God, not that we are not like other men, but have not been as sorely tried. Some will die for honor, and nearly all would doubtless act according to the noblest principles, had they the opportunity. Unite the interests of men and they unite, divide their interests and they arrange themselves against each other in the deadly combat. All this may seem too clear to be repeated, and yet men too generally overlook this simple axiom in their pretending sciences of law and government, political economy, social systems and principles of education. In all these cases men imagine abstract reasoning on morals and religion will have influence. They may restrain to some degree, but the master feeling conquers in the end. Self-preservation over comes all weaker influences.

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Proverbs chapter 22 verse 7

The rich rule over the poor and the borrower is slave to the lender.

22/7=?

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There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Speech in the House of Lords (March 2, 1770)

former Merrill Lynch CEO Don Regan tells Ronald Reagan to speed it up

In this leaked memo citigroup calls the US/west a plutonomy