Quotation for Today: 'Permanent Insecurity'

The quotation for today captures well the contemporary America built on 30 years of Republicans and Alan Greenspan's economic and monetary policies.  

Quotation for Today: GOP Stigmatize Hard-Working Americans

Inveterately and instinctually, the Republican Party presidential wannabes and powerbrokers speak their true feelings when they talk of American workers as special interests. The GOP elites view the one percent as their true constituency, not the hard-working Americans  --  the middle- and working-class Americans  --  who are the heart and soul of the 99 percent and America. The quotation for today condemns the Republican Party's presidential wannabes for stigmatizing industrious American workers as special interests.

Quotation for Today: Lobbying for Inequality

The quotation for today opens a discussion about poverty, middle class, elites, capitalism and democracy.

Quotation for Today: Tax Laws Embedded With Economic Inequality

The quotation for today, on the other side of the jump, emphasizes the economic inequality embedded in the tax laws of the United States.

Quotation for Today: Saving the Middle Class

"There isn't any question that income inequality has increased over the last three decades or so, despite a conservative campaign to discredit the notion."

Michael Hiltzik

Quotation for Today: Principle-Based, Self-Serving Republicans

The quotation for today highlights how Republicans' self-serving view of middle- and work-class Americans.

Quotation for Today: Hamlet on the Potomac

The quotation for today highlights the fact that our vacillating, Hamlet-like Speaker of the House, John Boehner, cannot decide whether to be for middle- and working-class Americans or against them (probably against them).

Quotation for Today

"The fact is, this crisis has left a deficit of trust between Main Street and Wall Street. And major banks that were rescued by the taxpayers have an obligation to go the extra mile in helping to close that deficit."

Barack H. Obama, 44th President of the United States of America

Remarks by the President on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas: given on 6 December, 2011.