Category Archives: Quotations

Obama as Thermometer-in-Chief

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Arlen Grossman

Why is has President Obama has been such a big disappointment for progressives?  He inspired us with lofty rhetoric and grandiose promises of hope and change during his 2008 presidential campaign. But when it came time to deliver, the campaign … Continue reading →

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BPR Quote of the Day: Consumption

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Arlen Grossman

“Consumption. This is the new national pastime. Fuck baseball, it’s consumption, the only true, lasting American value that’s left . . . buying things . . . People spending money they don’t have on things they don’t need . . … Continue reading →

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BPR Quote of the Day

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Arlen Grossman

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” Benito Mussolini I’m glad we don’t have any countries now that fit that description,  Right?

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BPR Quote of the Day: Enslave Workers

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Arlen Grossman

“Never in the history of the world has any measure been brought in here so insidiously designed so as to prevent business recovery, to enslave workers, and to prevent any possibility of the employers providing work for the people.” Representative … Continue reading →

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BPR Quote of the Day

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Arlen Grossman

“The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.” Benjamin Franklin

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BPR Quote of the Day: Possessions

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Arlen Grossman

“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”  Bertrand Russell

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BPR Quote of the Day

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Arlen Grossman

“I hear how (the Democrats are) so caring for the poor and so forth. The poor need jobs! And they also need to share some of the responsibility.” –Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Planet of Utah

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BPR Quote of the Day

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Arlen Grossman

“The Democrats and Republicans are equally corrupt — it’s only in the amount where the Republicans excel.”        –Will Rogers         And still true today.

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BPR Quote of the Day

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Arlen Grossman

“Why has the response to rising inequality been a drive to reduce taxes on the rich?” Paul Krugman —NY Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning Economist  

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