Jim Hightower-Living In a Kleptocrat Nation

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Living In a Kleptocrat Nation

By Jim Hightower, Texas Observer
August 21, 2003

kleptocrat nation (klep toe krat nay shun), n. 1. a body of people ruled by thieves. 2. a government characterized by the practice of transferring money and power from the many to the few. 3. a ruling class of moneyed elites that usurps liberty, justice, sovereignty, and other democratic rights from the people. 4. the USA in 2003.

The Kleptocrats have taken over. Look at America's leadership today – not just political, but corporate, too. Tell me you wouldn't trade the whole mess of them for one good kindergarten teacher. Forget George W. for a moment and sneak a peek at practically any big-deal CEO, congressional heavy, media baron, talk-show yakker, pompadoured TV preacher, or any the other pushers of America's new ethic of grab-it-and-go greed. In a crunch, would you want to be tied at the waist to any of them?

Yet, they're in charge! Here we are, living in the wealthiest country in history, a country of boundless possibilities, a country made up of a people deeply committed to democratic ideals, a country with the potential for spectacular human achievement – but we find ourselves ruled (politically, economically, culturally, and ethically) by a confederacy of Kleptocrats.

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kick this one. Jim is right on the money, as usual.

for kicking.

:kick:

and so very true of the theiving thugs who've hijacked our Republic.

last week, it was excellent. You can hear it with realaudio at http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1533241

Hightower kept uttering the same bunch of BS about no difference between Bush and Gore and he repeatedly trashed Gore.

He still trashes Democrats more that Republicans. He has no credibility with me, since he thinks Democrats are the greater evil, he should just join his buddy De Lay.

Hightower doesn't bash Democrats more than Republicans, it's the other way around. So he backed Nader, big deal, lotta good people did.

to back up your charges and establish your own credibility.

otherwise, STFU.

i hear him almost every day on local community radio station and he attack the morons, thieves, and greed-heads every day. sometimes that include your beloved democrats.

so, come back with some evidence to back up your blather or join your buddy Rush.

For his constant attacks on the Democratic party as being no different than the GOP. Of course we're different from the GOP but our weakness is that unlike the conservatives liberals are incohesive when liberals accuse each other of being Bush-lite.