I notice that no one is advocating the use of high carbon forged lathe tools in place of coated carbide insert tooling. I notice that no one is advocating the replacement of titanium with wrought iron. All of us would run from the doctor's office if his "cure" was always to apply leaches or draw off a pint or three of blood, no matter what your complaint or symptoms.
Why then do we accept, and indeed most of us insist on, the continuing application of the same old patent medicines and quack remedies for our cultural, societal and economic aches and pains? At some point the majority must stop work long enough to take a deep breath and a long, hard look around and say -- "This ain't working."
Does anyone have a suggestion that does not involve "more of the same only better?"
We are rapidly running out of time and money as individuals and as a society....
Unka George (George McDuffee)
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the "money touch," but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), U.S. Republican (later Progressive) politician, president. Letter, 15 Nov. 1913.