Thomas Jefferson (for all his faults) along with other forefathers are the most oft early quoted about corporations and government. Were they right? Is it all coming true? Have banks and corporations led us to this point, and could lead us to our destruction? Or is this a too simplistic way of looking at it?
Or it could be an Urban Legend (which it is) http://www.snopes.com/quotes/jefferson/banks.asp
So no. He wasn't since he never said it.
Yootopia
04-02-2009, 13:23
I'm pretty sure that his chatter about "corporations" was about farming co-ops. Keep in mind, language has changed a bit since he was about. See various 'ejaculation' lols from GCSE English Lit.
Newer Burmecia
04-02-2009, 13:45
The alternative was, at the time, the agricultural plantation economy of the South. So no.