[Sosfbay-discuss] Quote for the Day: "If God did not wish you to be fleeced ... "

[alexcathy at aol.com]

Dear Friends,

Here is your quote for the day:

"If God did not wish you to be fleeced, He would not have made you 
sheep."

I was surfin' the Internet this morning in search of commentary about 
Our Dear Great Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's long-awaited "move to 
the center" in last night's State-of-the-State message (as a good Green 
Party man, I don't buy the Democrat-Republican "bipartisan" bullshit 
for one second).  After telling us the State of California was so 
"broke" that widows, orphans, and old people needed to be thrown out on 
the street and "illegal aliens" hunted down like dogs, the "bipartisan" 
hackarama proposes a $222 billion public works program to buy votes in 
the 2006 election.

Here is the quote in the context of an article about California Green 
Party leader, Peter Camejo:


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Excerpted From
"Recalling Camejo"
by Bruce Patterson, Anderson Valley Advertiser

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A while back when California's "energy crisis" began picking my wage 
money out of my wallet, I remembered that long ago rap by Peter Camejo. 
Unregulated, profit-driven, free trade, dog-eat-dog capitalism is a 
hustle. Elect politicians who promise to "unleash the productive 
capacities" of the capitalists and they will always strangle the golden 
goose; always turn a boom into a bust. It was the apprehension of this 
elementary fact of life by most of my dad's and granddad's generations 
that led to the election of FDR and the New Deal, the attempt to 
introduce a bit of logic and to put a human face upon an economic 
system that was, left to its own, mindless and inhuman.

As the Titans of California's newly "privatized" and "bankrupt" public 
utilities were busy robbing me (they could have stole my wheels and 
left me better off), I got to listen to an endless chorus of 
professional journalists "people who know who butters their bread" 
patiently explain to me how my money was actually getting sucked up 
into the cosmic vacuum called "market forces," those nebulous, nuanced, 
ephemeral episodes and "trends" that so confound the experts and are 
therefore way beyond anything a rummy like myself should be worrying 
about.

In other words, when with the collusion of bought politicians a roomful 
of monopolists corner the market in electricity and heartlessly milk it 
for all its worth, it's an act of God. As in, "If God did not wish you 
to be fleeced, He would not have made you sheep."

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Ha!  Ha!  Ha!

I love that line.

CAMEJO FOR GOVERNOR, 2006!


Alex