"... 70% have literally no influence ... the Masters, get what they want."

[Scuba]

[arely staircase]

1. this is, of course

correct.

[freshwest]

2. And there it is. As quoted here:

"I want my fair share--and that's ALL OF IT":

The Kochs & the XL Pipeline - By Greg Palast

According to the transcript of the secretly recorded tape, Charles Koch was chuckling like a six-year old. Koch was having a hell of a laugh over pilfering a few hundred dollars' worth of oil from a couple of dirt-poor Indians on the Osage Reservation.

Why did Koch, worth about $3 billion at the time (now $20 billion) need to boost a few bucks from some Indian in a trailer home? Koch answered:

"I want my fair share -- and that's all of it."

Now "all of it" includes a pipeline, the Keystone XL, which would run the world's filthiest oil, crude made from tar sands, down from Canada to his family's refinery on the Gulf Coast of Texas...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/I-want-my-fair-share-and-by-Greg-Palast-130214-669.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1102&pid=7837

[Swamp Lover]

3. I have a Masters, but I don't get what I want.

When I was working on my Masters I thought that I would get what I want as a result, but I didn't.

[Octafish]

4. Been trying to tell Noam that it's been that way since Nov. 22, 1963.

Government of the .01-percent, by the .01-percent and for the .01-percent.

What Krugman said:

Who s Very Important?

EXCERPT...

The first thing you need to know is that America wasn’t always like this. When John F. Kennedy was elected president, the top 0.01 percent was only about a quarter as rich compared with the typical family as it is now — and members of that class paid much higher taxes than they do today. Yet somehow we managed to have a dynamic, innovative economy that was the envy of the world. The superrich may imagine that their wealth makes the world go round, but history says otherwise.

[rickyhall]

5. I'm not usually violent but...

Can we break out the guillotine yet?