May 2012
26 posts
“When you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot… And so if your main argument for how to grow the economy is ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors,’ then you’re missing what this job is about.”
—President Obama on why Mitt Romney’s record in the private sector matters (via barackobama)
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“In 1985, the top five percent of the households, wealthiest five percent, had net worth of $8 trillion, which is a lot. Today, after serial bubble after serial bubble, the top five percent have net worth of $40 trillion…The top five percent have gained more wealth than the whole human race had created prior to 1980.”
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Reagan budget director David Stockman
This, my friends, is what you call class warfare.
(via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
Robert Reich: Of Bedrooms and Boardrooms →
robertreich.org
The 2012 election should be about what’s going on in America’s boardrooms, but Republicans would rather it be about America’s bedrooms.
Mitt Romney says he’s against same-sex marriage; President Obama just announced his support. North Carolina voters have approved a Republican-proposed amendment…
“People say, ‘Oh, Mr. Sendak. I wish I were in touch with my childhood self, like you!’ As if it were all quaint and succulent, like Peter Pan. Childhood is cannibals and psychotic vomiting in your mouth! I say, ‘You are in touch, lady—you’re mean to your kids, you treat your husband like shit, you lie, you’re selfish… That is your childhood self!”
—Maurice Sendak, on what childhood means. (via theatlantic)
“Fuck them is what I say. I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won’t give a shit.”
—Renowned children’s book author MAURICE SENDAK, telling us how he really feels, on The Colbert Report. (via inothernews)
“You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson — she’s probably the top — Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.”
—Maurice Sendak on religion and faith. [complete interviews here] (via nprfreshair)
“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”
—John James Audubon (b. April 26, 1785)
