While our corporate CEOs may pay lip service to competition in the

[KlatooBNikto]

marketplace and free enterprise, they are totally risk averse and want nothing better than a sure bet,a fixed game and rigged deals. I think this may be why this Administration is desperate to wage wars which make very little sense to us.The corporate supporters of this administration, having failed in the marketplace to gain profits by legitimate means are now tapping into tax payers' money to get their ill gotten gains.Even the outsourcing of jobs may have gained momentum because our corporations have just about given up on the idea of making money the old fashioned way,i.e earning it.

[teryang]

1. Euphemism for colonial conquest: "exporting security"

You are exactly right. I believe that this is the major current economic and political trend promoting American belligerence. Failure in the competitive economic realm leads to the effort to carve out markets and profits by political corruption and conquest.

The same forces led to the world wars of the twentieth century. The failure of the so called "unseen hand" and "free marketplace" to ensure preeminence leads inevitably to war and conquest as corrupt elites seek to shore up their challenged social position.

Current rates of economic growth in India and China ensure that America's position as the dominant continental economic power is in jeopardy. Likewise, demographics and capital accumulation in mideastern Islamic states threatened Israel's prospects. The language of conquest is the currency of insecurity.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. The really big problem, for RW/corporate America, is that the country

doesn't exist in a vacuum. They can scam us all day long with the rigged games (and they DO), but they exist in a world of competition among other companies and nations which they are doomed to lose if they persist in the short term pillaging. Might be doomed to lose anyway, but this accelerates the process.