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" Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done! "
Work
Opportunity
Family
" I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system. "
Computers
Thinking
System
" Inaction may be the biggest form of action. "
Action
Form
May
" In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it. "
Know
People
Doing
" It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet. "
American
Diet
Eat
" Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all. "
Food
Medical
American
" Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division. "
Control
Thinking
Foundation
" Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now. "
Run
Talk
Long
" Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do? "
Protect
Prisons
Punish
" Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same. "
Living
Reality
Budget
" The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs. "
Cut
Opposite
Welfare
" The government is becoming the family of last resort. "
Government
Last
Becoming
" The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything. "
Planning
Nobody
Anything
" Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. "
Fill
Available
Paper
" We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions. "
End
Cost
Afford
" We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are. "
Intentional
Create
Cooperation
" We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge. "
Challenge
Family
Power
" When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides? "
Name
Face
Process
" Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change. "
Change
Political
Movement
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