Yippe-Ki-Ya said:Dwayne said:Paulo said:Ironic that a county built upon free market & free man principles can be so easily be infiltrated, and become a military-industrial-socialist state.
Socialist? Try corporate kleptocracy with bread and circuses to keep the masses from revolting.
This is the brother of socialism. Think Nazi Germany. It was definately socialist!
Labour's share of GDP is at it's lowest for decades cf corporate profits are at their highest over the same period.
Trillions go to corporate welfare via the screwed up sick care system which is designed to produce profits for providers rather than outcomes, via the military-industrial complex and wars of empire. Heck, the whole economy is structured to manipulate markets for the benefit of entrenched corporate interests.
The political system is basically a symbiosis between corporate lobbyists and politicians who have no hope of being elected without their corporate backers and their donations.
Socialized losses and privatized profits?
A gap between the rich and poor which is the biggest in the developed world...
Sorry, it doesn't sound particularly socialist to me.