"The goal has been the 'Third Worldization' of the United States:
- an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force;
- a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes;
- the privatization or elimination of human services;
- the elimination of public education for low-income people;
- the easing of restrictions against child labor;
- the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries;
- the breaking of labor unions;
- and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations."
Michael Parenti, Land of Idols, 1993
"When you speak these things, they will not listen. When you call to them, they will not answer. 'This is the nation that would not listen to the Lord their God. Truth has perished among them. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned them under His wrath. For the Judeans have done what is contemptible in My sight.' This is the Lord’s declaration. 'They have set up detestable things in the house that is called by My name — and defiled it.'" Jeremiah 7:27-30