How Wall Street Occupied America | The Nation
How Wall Street Occupied America | The Nation : "This article is adapted from a speech Bill Moyers gave in October at Public Citizen’s fortieth-anniversary gala. During the prairie revolt that swept the Great Plains in 1890, populist orator Mary Elizabeth Lease exclaimed, “Wall Street owns the country…. Money rules…. Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us.”" 'via Blog this'