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Hmm...who said this not so long ago??
Quick history quiz. Who dropped this little quote?
Primarily this is because rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods
have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence,
have admitted their failure, and have abdicated. Practices of the
unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public
opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men. True they have tried,
but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn
tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the
lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to
induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted
to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence....The
money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our
civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The
measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social
values more noble than mere monetary profit.
Barack Obama last week?
Barack Obama today?
Nope.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from his First Inaugural Address. Saturday, March 4, 1933
Perspective is everything.
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