«AND I THINK I SEE MORE HOMELESS PEOPLE ON THE STREET EVERY MONTH.HOW CAN WE LET THIS KEEP HAPPENING?» -ANDY WARHOL

«Perhaps the time has come for Americans to stop worrying about the welfare of the rich. For the past two decades, the assumption has grown more powerful each year that unless the very well-to-do are encouraged to become wealthier our economy will falter. Well, we have allowed them to become wealthier and wealthier and and then even wealthier and the economy is faltering. Apparently the economic lust of the 1990's has unbalanced the springs. Might it not be unnatural,
even a little peculiar to concern ourselves so much about the needs of the rich? The rich, as Scot Fitzgerald tried to suggest to Ernest Hemingway, are not like you and me. They are not. They know how to make money. They do not need incentives. Making money is not only their gift but their vital need. This is their vision a a spiritual reward. Not only is their measure of self attached directly to the volume of their gains, but the majority of them know how to stay rich. They are highly qualified to take care of themselves in any society, be it socialism, fascism, banana republic or chaotic. Whether they live in a corporate economy relatively free of government or with a larger government presence, they will prosper. They can withstand an American safety net»

-Normand Mailer
Playboy magazine
January 2004