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Glenn Greenwald, for once you are Johnny Come Lately. When I went to college in the 1960's, my professor of Political Sociology had the class bring weekend editions of the New York Times to peruse. We turned to the society section and read out the names of the new debutantes. The professor explained that the names in the society page comprise the approximately 2,000 persons, families included, who call all the shots in the country. They go into government, then into the private corporate sector, then back into government, etc. Even the administration positions of the federal bureaucracies are well-paid welfare slots for children of the wealthy and powerful.
