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Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And It's Time to Take It Back
by Jim Hightower,Milton Friedman
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Author, populist, and radio commentator Jim Hightower is nothing if not direct. In Thieves in High Places, Hightower lambastes the current American power structure and exhorts his readers to fight against it. Hightower's indignation runs deep in this "us versus...(more)
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Tue Sep 11 00:21:53 UTC 2007
Source: Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And It's Time to Take It Back, Page: 116
Contributed by: Inukshuk.
Thurgood Marshall said

“A child born to a black mother in a state like Mississippi … has the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.”

Tue Sep 11 00:14:45 UTC 2007
Source: Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country--And It's Time to Take It Back, Page: 18...19
Contributed by: Inukshuk.
Jim Hightower said

The Bushites' domination and transformation of the governing apparatus is so antithetical to our democratic values, yet so thorough, that we no longer have The Government of the People of the United States of America.

But, what the hell, I say we go all the way with it. I mean, what kind of name is “The Government of the People of the United States of America” anyway.  That's so yesterday. We could use some marketing savvy here, some twenty-first-century identity branding that can connect to the wired, hip, commercial culture that is “today.”

Let's get with the times, people! You don't see phone companies, for example, sticking with stodgy old names like Bell Atlantic Telephone Corporation, do you? No–they become “Verizon.” Now that's got some zip to it! (Alright, it's not really a word and no one can figure out what it is or what it's selling, and the company's stock price is down by half in the three years since the name change, but let's not fall into the trap of negativity here.)

So let's rebrand. Forget. The Government of the People of YadaYadaYada. Let's call it something consumers can remember, something that'll look good on Washington's marble walls, something punchy and true to the spirit of the Bush government. Let's call it: BUSHCO!