English for slow business

OUT TO LAUNCH. EPISODE 1

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/susan_george.html   As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status. Susan George Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration. Susan George Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that. Susan George Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded. Susan George How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need ...