Not Much Has Changed...

Wall Street owns the country.
It is no longer a government of the people, by the people,
and for the people, but a government of Wall Street,
by Wall Street and for Wall Street.
Mary Ellen Lease, 1890

Howard Zinn quotes a larger excerpt from Lease's speech in A People's History, but this sentence sums it up. Don't think I need to comment except that there is a horrible comfort in knowing things never change. The truth frees one to follow other pursuits.