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"Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions."

"Well, banks are the biggest mafia, you know, except for the government of course."

"I believe Money is too important to leave in the hands of government officials."

"Once you deposit that money in your checking account, it becomes the bank's money and you're just another one of their creditors."

"Money is only a problem to those that aren't willing to develop a higher conscience about how to master it."

"Organized scarcity is the best way to increase your profits.This is the idea of the ends justify the means. There are second and third order effects that will take away all of the gains and then some. Wisdom is better than gold, peace is better than profit."

"A sure way to go broke is to spend your outer riches before you have saved enough of your inner ones."

"Sharpen and trust your judgement: learn when spending is a shrewd investment and when it is merely an indulgence."
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"And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services."

"Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions."

"Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending."

"Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it."

"When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition."

"Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?"

"What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly."

"Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying."

"So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically."
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