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And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.

Do you wish to know wether that day is comming? Watch the money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you seen that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

Who out there in la la land can see that we are right in the middle of the same exact situation as the one above???

31 posted on 11/27/2001 4:55:31 PM PST by Ferris
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To: Ferris
That's a good quote. However, the situation described therein has existed since mankind has had governments and goods and services to buy and sell.

There's nothing new under the sun, and a society totally given to the virtues of fairness is only a myth in this world.

161 posted on 11/28/2001 6:58:43 AM PST by rdb3
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To: Ferris
the proper translation of the referred to scripture is:

The love of money is A root of all evil.

not THE root of all evil........

211 posted on 03/01/2002 6:30:22 PM PST by TaxPayer2000
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