It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. Now, sir, in the present case, if any gentlemen, whose money is a burden to them, choose to lead off a dance, I am decidedly opposed to the people’s money being used to pay the fiddler…all this to settle a question in which the people have no interest, and about which they care nothing. These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.
Abraham Lincoln in a Speech in the Illinois Legislature Concerning the State Bank [via Tiny Revolution]
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These words of Lincoln’s are not just about bail-outs. These words are also critical of capitalists. Hmmm….Let’s try something else besides capitalism.
Like what? Communism? Socialism?