Re: What Will Revolution Look Like?

[Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>]

On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, John Young wrote:

> Preindicators to revolution and anti-revolution in US:
> 
> World's highest disparity between poor and rich population.
> 
> World's highest military expenditures.
> 
> World's highest justice expenditures.
> 
> World's largest percentage of population in prison.
> 
> World's largets percentage of population in law enforcement.
> 

This reminded me of a wonderful quote from Mr. Jefferson:

"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our
rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between
economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts
as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries
and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and
our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come
to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of
these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the
sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now
do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling
the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring
ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers."

--Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. 

(-: was he describing England or the US?  ;-)

jim