Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Graffiti 114

With the feverish popularity of The Wolf of Wall Street its a good time to reexamine, expose, and reflect on that most noble of pursuits: American Greed.

"Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?" -Elizabeth Warren

"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second." -John Steinbeck

"Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people." -Garrison Keillor

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