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Quotation of the Day for July 21, 2011"Well, let me put it this way. "All of us assign blame in our own best interest. Right? "Well, if we assign blame in our own best interest, that means blame is relative. And if blame is relative, then one of the important functions in society becomes who controls the blame patterns. "Why is it that large bodies of workers, like in my country, assign blame downward to some welfare chisellers down at the bottom, you know, they say "trying to get a little bit of something for nothing" and they never assign blame upward to the handful of big-time chisellers at the top who get a whole lot of something for doing nothing at all? "Well, that's because the blame pattern is manipulated....the government reaches out through its media, in every home, and pushes those buttons and pulls those levers and elicits massive response for or against anything it chooses." - Utah Phillips, folk singer and activist, during a 1981 concert in Vancouver, BC. The concert was recorded on the album "We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years". Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Apr. 19, 2011  |
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