{"quotes":[{"text":"What’s interesting is that most free-marketers don’t seem to want a free market at all, but a status quo market. The market in the United States is anything but free. If it were, big business would have to survive without corporate welfare to the tune of about $1 trillion (that’s trillion) in government subsidies, the majority of which, about $650 billion, go to the fossil fuel industry! They are living off of the public dole on subsidies totaling billions of dollars—that we hand out either directly, or through tax breaks for their big corporations—with the false assumption that they are creating jobs. They are not. They are creating yachts, Leer Jets, and McMansions with swimming pools.","author":"Steve Bivans","tags":["greed","poverty","tax-breaks","wealth","welfare","yachts"],"id":13080,"author_id":"Steve+Bivans"},{"text":"What’s interesting is that most free-marketers don’t seem to want a free market at all, but a status quo market. The market in the United States is anything but free. If it were, big business would have to survive without corporate welfare to the tune of about $1 trillion (that’s trillion) in government subsidies, the majority of which, about $650 billion, go to the fossil fuel industry! They are living off of the public dole on subsidies totaling billions of dollar—that we hand out either directly, or through tax breaks for their big corporations—with the false assumption that they are creating jobs. They are not. They are creating yachts, Leer Jets, and McMansions with swimming pools.","author":"Steve Bivans","tags":["greed","job-creation","poverty","tax-breaks","wealth","welfare","yachts"],"id":58121,"author_id":"Steve+Bivans"},{"text":"On Atheism – If people continue to think of atheism as a kind of religion, then I demand all the perks that real religions get. I want to build big empty buildings where like-minded people can gather once a week to debate a non-existent deity. I want tax-exempt status. I want real food, not cheap wine and crackers. I want a rocking band. I want altar men! Not altar boys—altar MEN—and I want them to look like the chain-clad guy who hands an envelope to RuPaul at the beginning of “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar”.","author":"Marsha Hinds","tags":["altar-boys","atheism","band","chains","crackers","deity","drag-queens","food","movies","music","non-existence","religion","rupaul","tax-breaks","wine"],"id":102281,"author_id":"Marsha+Hinds"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}