I heart Ben Franklin...

As it relates to climate change reforms, banking reform, health care reform and industrial reforms, please carefully read on;

"The resentment of the people will, at times and on particular incidents, burst into outrages and violence upon such [elected officials], and this naturally draws down severity [of judgment] and acts of further oppression from hence.

The more the people are dissatisfied, the more rigor will be thought necessary; severe punishments will be inflicted to terrify; rights and privileges will be abolished; great force will then be required to secure execution and submission [to the will of the elected]; the expenses will become enormous; it will be then thought proper, by fresh exactions, to make the people to defray it; thence, the [elected officials] will become odious, and the subjections to them will be deemed no longer tolerable; [civil unrest] ensues and the [financially and socially] bloody struggle will end in absolute slavery [to the people], or ruin to the [elected officials] by the loss of [their people's faith]; the latter more probable, from the [peoples] growing strength and magnitude."

Excerpted from The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin, pp. 66

Editorial additions by Jarret M. Sharp