"If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty."

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"If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty."

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"The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined."

Mitch McConnell, American Politician

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"I spend my life constantly calling in 'imaginary' debts that aren't owed to me in order to avoid the 'real' debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda."

Michael Bloomberg, American Politician

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"Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances."

David Wilkerson, American Clergyman

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"Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times."

Rutherford B. Hayes, American President

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"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt."

Herbert Hoover, American President

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"A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves."

Ralph W. Sockman, American Leader

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"Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try."

Michael N. Castle, American Politician

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"We all think we're going to get out of debt."

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"Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt."

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"And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics."

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"Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay."

Growth

"There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision."

Vision

"So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers."

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"Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy."

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"Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way."

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"The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy."

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"Money is a mechanism for control."

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"The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price."

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"Global competition is about winners and losers."

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