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AND THE BIGGEST MYTH OF ALL: Money is power. Yep. Right up until you are Teddy Roosevelt and President of the United States of America. THEN you get to dictate to the sumsabeeyoches that paid the money to elect you how they will treat mineworkers in Appalachia (or you will destroy their companies if they don't care about people working for them).
THEN you gt to tell Japan and Russia to quit fighting (even though it is in the very best economical interest of the corporations in America --supplying both sides, and contributors to your campaigns-- that they continue their war). THEN , you take an elongated hike with your hippie pen-pal buddy John Muir, and realize that the timber companies who wanted to rape California for every single last ancient Redwood was probably not a good idea for people who might live in 2012. Teddy and Muir actually set fire to a tree on a cliff just to have their own brand of fireworks to see the crown blaze, sending embers into the canyon. Teddy at that point, said "frig" 'em all to his timber supporters and spent the rest of his Presidency devoted to setting aside real estate for the future enjoyment of all Americans. Not only did he set aside land then, he reinforced the Presidential ability to do so. AGAINST all the money power that was timber of the day (and elected him, and even then, continuted to be his supporters). Puppeteers? Money (arguably) has never been so important in America as in those times. Teddy accepted the strings, broke e'm, then went back to the puppeteers, and got more money. THAT is the power of the office.
Oh, Yeah. In the meantime you say screw everybody and whip out the Panama Canal. Then you turn down a hard-cinch re-election and go hunting in Africa with your son.
THEN you gt to tell Japan and Russia to quit fighting (even though it is in the very best economical interest of the corporations in America --supplying both sides, and contributors to your campaigns-- that they continue their war). THEN , you take an elongated hike with your hippie pen-pal buddy John Muir, and realize that the timber companies who wanted to rape California for every single last ancient Redwood was probably not a good idea for people who might live in 2012. Teddy and Muir actually set fire to a tree on a cliff just to have their own brand of fireworks to see the crown blaze, sending embers into the canyon. Teddy at that point, said "frig" 'em all to his timber supporters and spent the rest of his Presidency devoted to setting aside real estate for the future enjoyment of all Americans. Not only did he set aside land then, he reinforced the Presidential ability to do so. AGAINST all the money power that was timber of the day (and elected him, and even then, continuted to be his supporters). Puppeteers? Money (arguably) has never been so important in America as in those times. Teddy accepted the strings, broke e'm, then went back to the puppeteers, and got more money. THAT is the power of the office.
Oh, Yeah. In the meantime you say screw everybody and whip out the Panama Canal. Then you turn down a hard-cinch re-election and go hunting in Africa with your son.