Posted on 07/06/2011 6:14:53 AM PDT by i88schwartz
"It seems to me that if America were really expanding economically, that kind of wealth, that kind of disparity is palpable. But when you have stagnation when you have a chronic case of unemployment, the sense of social injustice can be terribly demoralizing and politically in the long run, very dangerous. It can politicize social economic issues, create radicalism, class conflict [and] extremism and I think that is a real risk in our society. Especially since so many of those who made so much money recently produce very little wealth for others. They essentially pocket the money. They are engaged in financial manipulations but not in enhancing productivity and increasing employment," Zbigniew Brzezinski said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday.
Brzezinski served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
You don’t have a God-given right to my money, whether I make $1 or $100 million.
Piss off, Ziggy.
Of course I remember Zig saying this all through the 20 year Reagan boom. /s
I guess it is safer in their pockets than to put it in a money market account to earn 0.001% interest and hope the bank doesn’t go belly-up.
Does Ziggy mean actually “pocket” their millions? Even if the “rich” just put their cash into savings accounts, would the bank not loan it out? This is meaningless rhetoric unless, like the royal family in India, the rich put their money into a vault beneath a temple. The economy is shrinking as government demands more and regulates more. The rich are prudently not throwing their money away unlike the government which supports welfare which supports drug dealers (now there is a growth industry for O to tout.
Yep. Those “eeeevilll rich” pocket their money. What incentive do they have (aside from Obama’s constant lecturing) for investing anything?
They don’t remotely have any idea what the Obama administration is going to do next, what regulation, what tax, what “mandate”; they have nothing stable on which to base an investment - just more lectures from the Teleprompter of Obama, and the worry that the same “base” will catapult him into office for four more agonizing years.
So, why are they going to invest in job producing projects and products?
Zbigniew Brzezinski - father of the world’s dumbest woman.
You’d think, if only out of shame, Jimmy Carter and members of his colossal (economic, foreign policy, you name it) failure of an administration would have taken vows of silence by now.
Has it been thirty five years? I guess there’s no fool like an old fool.
Rule by Rentiers.
I prefer dealing with those who understand how to create value.
The road to wealth is simple: Consume less than you produce.
So say the NeoCons.
OTOH, the wisest of the wise old Realists are Kissinger, Brzezenski, and Brent Scowcroft.
The NeoCons don't like Republican Kissinger or Republican Scowcroft any more than they like Democrat ZBig.
“But when you have stagnation when you have a chronic case of unemployment, the sense of social injustice can be terribly demoralizing and politically in the long run, very dangerous. It can politicize social economic issues, create radicalism, class conflict [and] extremism and I think that is a real risk in our society.”
Umm..insitgating class warfare... isn’t this the Kenyan lizard king’s plan all along?
Leave it to Carter to find the only liberty-loathing, Western-hating, soulless Pole.
“If I make a lot of honest money and want to pocket it, what business is it to Zbig and his socialist buddies?”
His point seems to be along the lines of that trusty old defense of the New Deal holding that had we not adopted that moderate amount of socialism we risked communist revolution. Brzezinski is afraid that the idleness of the malefactors of great wealth is unecessarily inflammatory to the people’s sense of “social justice.”
Hey, at least he admits that it's their money. Most Democrats believe that it's the government's money.
Isn't that precisely the operating manual of the DNC?
I didn't read the entire article - did he go on a rant about "International Zionist bankers"?
Zhig, one of the most influential Bilberbergs and top NWO guy.
Unlike thieves who pocket other people's money.
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