Wealth+and+Wrath

to enrich the rich The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it...the monster isn't men, but it can make men do what it wants." -John Steinbeck, //The Grapes of Wrath//

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Look at 1:00 - 1:09 and 3:30 - end to get a sense of humans creating an uncontrollable monster

**"While two-thirds of mankind suffers undernourishment, our own upper classes revel amidst superfluous abundance...and uncontrolled exploitation governs the sapping of the earth's physical resources. Although mankind desperately needs revolutionary leadership, America rests in national stalemate, its goals ambiguous and tradition-bound instead of informed and clear, its democratic system apathetic and manipulated rather than** **"of, by, and for the people."**  **-Tom Hayden, //The Port Huron Statement//**



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===**"And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quicklime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people are the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."** ===

**-John Steinbeck, //The Grapes of Wrath//**
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**Combined net worth of the Forbes 400 wealthiest Americans in 2007: $1.5 trillion.** **Combined net worth of the poorest 50% of American households: $1.6 trillion.**  <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">**-Inequality Index, 2007**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 140%; text-align: center;"> “The only thing you do in Washington is to take money from the pockets of the poor and put it into the pockets of the rich...this Government is a conspiracy against the common people to enrich the already rich.” -Oskar Ameringer, Oklahoma newspaperman, //Rumbles of Revolution//, 1932