What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides. Matt Taibbi Read Quote
The party in power almost always unapologetically engages in deficit spending, while the other party argues passionately against the evils of debt and deficits. Matt Taibbi Read Quote
The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term. Matt Taibbi Read Quote
It’s increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish and/or threaten to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across the informational line. Matt Taibbi Read Quote
By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future. Matt Taibbi Read Quote
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. Matt Taibbi Read Quote
If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat. Matt Taibbi Read Quote
It obviously matters who gets to be president. And it’s perfectly valid for us media types to advocate for the candidate we think is more qualified, based on our reporting. But the hype has gotten so out of control, it’s become bigger than the presidency itself. Matt Taibbi Read Quote
Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief. Matt Taibbi Read Quote
America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside. Matt Taibbi Read Quote
