“The right wing talks about this but they keep appealing to that old INDIVIDUALISTIC BOOTSTRAP MYTH: get a job, get rich, and get out. Instead of investing in our neighborhoods, that’s what has always happened. Our goal must be to help people get a sense of building something larger.” (Look how well that worked out in Chicago.)
“In America, we have this strong bias toward individual action. You know, we idolize the John Wayne hero who comes in to correct things with both guns blazing. But individual actions, individual dreams, are not sufficient. We must unite in COLLECTIVE ACTION, build collective institutions and organizations.” - 0bama
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGEyMmUxMjJjYjY5OGY2ZGEzODA3YjY1YTg2NjhmMjM=
The Industrial Revolution Past and Future
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis ^ | May 2004 | Robert E. Lucas
“Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution. But of the vast increase in the well-being of hundreds of millions of people that has occurred in the 200-year course of the industrial revolution to date, virtually none of it can be attributed to the direct redistribution of resources from rich to poor. The potential for improving the lives of poor people by finding different ways of distributing current production is nothing compared to the apparently limitless potential of increasing production.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2120050/posts