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Opening A Trillion- Dollar Hole , how congress is tryign to remove the Estate Tax, which currently only affects 2% which are only the incrediably large estates. Really liked the Roosevelt statement.

The estate tax was signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt, who was stunned by the vast fortunes being accumulated in the first decades of the industrial age. Roosevelt had the quaint notion that great inequality of wealth was unhealthy for a democratic society, and — foolish man — he even believed that young people were better off making their own way than living off the fruits of their parents’ success.

How the Great Fortunes Grow: The State Lends a Helping Hand, a review of Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, by Kevin
Phillips. Intresting sounding book best summed:

Ranging from chapter to chapter across oceans and centuries, Mr. Phillips constructs a complex analogy between the United States at its superpower zenith and its imperial predecessors in Spain, Holland and Great Britain. His argument isn�t easily summarized, but in essence he�s warning us of certain symptoms that eventually grip all the great capitalist powers: concentration of wealth, polarization of classes, irrational speculation, excessive luxury, technological mania, government corruption, market idolatry and political alienation. He believes that we are being led down the same spiraling path, toward the same dead end.

How the Great Fortunes Grow: The State Lends a Helping Hand, a review of Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich, by Kevin
Phillips. Intresting sounding book best summed:

Ranging from chapter to chapter across oceans and centuries, Mr. Phillips constructs a complex analogy between the United States at its superpower zenith and its imperial predecessors in Spain, Holland and Great Britain. His argument isn�t easily summarized, but in essence he�s warning us of certain symptoms that eventually grip all the great capitalist powers: concentration of wealth, polarization of classes, irrational speculation, excessive luxury, technological mania, government corruption, market idolatry and political alienation. He believes that we are being led down the same spiraling path, toward the same dead end.

Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America, warning images were intesely disturbing. I was not able ot go through them all, it was just so disturbing. As far as i got the majority were black males and all were in the south. The thing is I have heard stories and knew that lynching was a part of the South’s history but to see postcard pictures of the event just begins to illustrate how bad the situation was then.

Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America, warning images were intesely disturbing. I was not able ot go through them all, it was just so disturbing. As far as i got the majority were black males and all were in the south. The thing is I have heard stories and knew that lynching was a part of the South’s history but to see postcard pictures of the event just begins to illustrate how bad the situation was then.

terrorism

The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce societies or governments

unlawful, in reference to the first definition for terrorism

1. Not lawful; illegal.
2. Contrary to accepted morality or convention; illicit.
…

1: not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention; “an irregular marriage”; “improper banking practices” [syn: improper, unconventional]

2: contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law; “unlawful measures”; “unlawful money”; “unlawful hunters” [ant: lawful]

3: not morally right or permissible; “unlawful love”

4: having no legally established claim; “the wrongful heir to the throne” [syn: wrongful]

5: contrary to or forbidden by law; “an illegitimate seizure of power”; “illicit trade”; “an outlaw strike”; “unlawful measures” [syn: illegitimate, illicit, outlaw(a), outlawed]

For my own clarification spured on from a discussion with engel over the weekend.

terrorism

The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce societies or governments

unlawful, in reference to the first definition for terrorism

1. Not lawful; illegal.
2. Contrary to accepted morality or convention; illicit.
…

1: not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention; “an irregular marriage”; “improper banking practices” [syn: improper, unconventional]

2: contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law; “unlawful measures”; “unlawful money”; “unlawful hunters” [ant: lawful]

3: not morally right or permissible; “unlawful love”

4: having no legally established claim; “the wrongful heir to the throne” [syn: wrongful]

5: contrary to or forbidden by law; “an illegitimate seizure of power”; “illicit trade”; “an outlaw strike”; “unlawful measures” [syn: illegitimate, illicit, outlaw(a), outlawed]

For my own clarification spured on from a discussion with engel over the weekend.