Third World America Quotes

“It’s not that capitalism isn’t working. It’s that what we have right now is not capitalism. What we have is corporatism. It’s welfare for the rich. It’s the government picking winners and losers. It’s Wall Street having its taxpayer-funded cake and eating it, too. It’s socialized losses and privatized gains.”
― Arianna Huffington, Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

“This spring saw a surge in consumer spending that spawned talk of “green shoots.” But it turned out the spending surge was economically imbalanced. As the Los Angeles Times’s Don Lee put it, the “little-noticed reality” behind the “encouraging numbers” was that “much of the new spending [had] come not from America’s broad middle class but from a small slice of affluent people at the top.”
― Arianna Huffington, Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

“Robert F. Kennedy called on Americans to look at our economy in a radically different way. “Our gross national product is now over $800 billion a year,” he said, “but that GNP—if we should judge America by that—counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets.”
― Arianna Huffington, Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

“There are no lobbyists for the American Dream.”
― Arianna Huffington, Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream