“Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary generation. Familiar as the founders were with old Europe . . . they understood why the accumulation of inherited wealth led to inequities and imbalances that inevitably corrupted any system of government.” GovernmentPoliticalWealthLeaderGenerationsIntellectualUnderstoodEuropeFamiliarRevolutionaryRepublicFoundersPerilAccumulationImbalanceSystems Of GovernmentInherited Wealth Book:It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush Source: It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush
“The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic.” NeedsHumansWellsMadeProblemGovernmentPoliticalRolesCreativityEconomyProfitCriticalMotiveEnterpriseDestructiveIdolsEfficiencyHuman NeedsPrivate EnterpriseProfit Motive Author:Joe Conason
