tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088603658552825500.post5422591333824744933..comments2023-11-05T05:53:29.465-05:00Comments on The Hickory Hound: Platform for a 21st Century Hickory - Public InformationJames Thomas Shellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04359970774315269896noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2088603658552825500.post-8063814360906381132013-08-21T06:02:42.372-04:002013-08-21T06:02:42.372-04:00I would implore the reader to carefully consider t...I would implore the reader to carefully consider the following, point by point and compare and contrast that to what is referred to as "Hickory Inc." here.<br /><br />"The rich" coalesce into a social upper class that has developed institutions by which the children of its members are socialized into an upper-class worldview, and newly wealthy people are assimilated. <br /><br />Members of this upper class control corporations, which have been the primary mechanisms for generating and holding wealth in the United States for upwards of 150 years now. <br /><br />There exists a network of nonprofit organizations through which members of the upper class and hired corporate leaders not yet in the upper class shape policy debates in the United States. <br /><br />Members of the upper class, with the help of their high-level employees in profit and nonprofit institutions, are able to dominate the federal government in Washington. <br /><br />The rich, and corporate leaders, nonetheless claim to be relatively powerless. <br /><br />Working people have less power than in many other democratic countries. <br /><br />If you're reading this and your eyes have sufficiently widened, I'll fill in some more blanks. That list is from a book titled, "Who Rules America." It was first published in 1967 and no, that isn't a typo. Looking at the group currently in charge and how their lives entertwine with who the 'real' powerbrokers are in Hickory, it's almost like Hickory is the example upon which this book was written.<br /><br />It wasn't but I hope your eyes are sufficiently opened and remain so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com