Sunday, February 25, 2007
RANDOM ORATIONS POST
Bright continued. same speech of course-
But it may be asked, did nobody gain? if Europe is no better, and the people of england have been so much worse, who has bennefitted by the new system of foreign policy?----
----and so that [atronage at the disposal of ministers must have increased also, and the families who were enthroned and made powerful in the legislation and the administration of the country must have had first pull at, and the largest profit out of that patronage? there is no actuaryon existence who can calculate how much of the wealth, of the strength, of the spremacy of the territorial families of england, has been derived from unholy participation in the fruits of industry of the people, which have been wrested from them by every device of taxation, and squandered in every conceivable crime of which a government could possibly be guilty.
and so history repeats again and again and again.
war, what is it good for? absolutely nothing.
(except profits for halliburton)
Bright continued. same speech of course-
But it may be asked, did nobody gain? if Europe is no better, and the people of england have been so much worse, who has bennefitted by the new system of foreign policy?----
----and so that [atronage at the disposal of ministers must have increased also, and the families who were enthroned and made powerful in the legislation and the administration of the country must have had first pull at, and the largest profit out of that patronage? there is no actuaryon existence who can calculate how much of the wealth, of the strength, of the spremacy of the territorial families of england, has been derived from unholy participation in the fruits of industry of the people, which have been wrested from them by every device of taxation, and squandered in every conceivable crime of which a government could possibly be guilty.
and so history repeats again and again and again.
war, what is it good for? absolutely nothing.
(except profits for halliburton)
