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Pluvious

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6. Only when there might be something for them to benefit from

Reply to travelingthrulife (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 19, 2025, 11:26 AM

Friday

"We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob".

-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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