Ogden Nash Quotes
Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.
Nash, Ogden. I'm a Stranger Here Myself. Little, Brown and Company, 1938, p. 111.
Worry about the disproportional power of the rich is not a modern concern, but was a concern from the very beginning of the nation. There was a belief that if there were a legislative body representing the entire population the rich would tend to dominate it. The solution that England had found was a bicameral Parliament—a House of Lords representing the wealthy and the powerful and the House of Commons, representing the bulk of the people. America followed suit but never did have the class distinction of England.
Buffet was the 2nd richest man in America and had been the beneficiary of the George W. Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and had profited from a strong economy but one which found middle class workers actually earning less each year.
Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
