Thomas Friedman dismissed the protesters in Quebec City as members of the 'Coalition to Keep Poor People Poor.' ...The Coalition to Keep Poor People Poor might as well disband; its apparent goal is being accomplished in spades by pro-market forces. If the prospects of the world's poor improving their lot is one that supposedly upsets anti-capitalist protestors, they can confidently put their gas masks and get back to the shopping mall - global capitalism can be trusted to keep the poor in check without any help.

[W]e have things fundamentally backwards today: we let the needs of the economy dictate the nature of our society, while we should let the needs of our society…

[The] contention that today's rich person is simply the winner of a 'race that is open for anyone to enter' takes no account of inheritance or how we are equip…

[W]e are assured not just that things will work out over time, but that scarcity is 'vanishing before our eyes.' Why, look - even as we watch - those 2.8 billi…

The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work. If the machinery for distribution in the present econo…

Word motherf**kin life/f**k this ni**a think?Cuttin taxes, takin off welfare/We 'sposed to just sit here, go broke and die, starvin?

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest-usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation-and in a family of peasants, wh…