What Would You Call a Form of Government?

[The Whiskey Priest]

Where only the rich have access to the government,

Where only the rich have access to health care,

Where only the rich have access to retirement with dignity,

Where only the rich have access to discretionary time,

Where only the rich have access to ownership of the means of production,

Where only the rich have access to the courts,

Where only the rich have access to means for flouting the law,

Where only the rich have access to the seats of government,

Where only the rich have access to means to insure a decent standard of living,

Where only the rich have escaped taxation.


Is this not where we stand at the moment? What form of government does this indicate?

[atommom]

1. I think the word is fascism.

[SoonerShankle]

5. aristocracy is the correct term, I believe...

so maybe an aristocratic oligarchy?

[Just Me]

11. The rich are the corporacrats. It's a corporatocracy (eg fascism).

The corporacrats control everything, now,...except aspects of the judiciary. They are still working on that one but certainly know how to manipulate it.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Where legislation is written exclusively by corporations (who BTW pay

no taxes....)

[Common Sense Party]

3. I'm not rich.

I have access to health care (it's expensive and it sucks, but I have access to it).

I'm damn sure going to retire with dignity--I'm sacrificing current wants and putting away for it, investing prudently.

I'm not sure about "insuring" a decent standard of living. I doubt I'll ever be able to "insure" that.

I agree with you about only the rich having access to NATIONAL seats of government--local is fifferent--and escaping (for the most part) taxation.

I guess it would help to define "rich." Is "rich" anyone above poverty level?

[The Whiskey Priest]

12. What happens when you are required to self-fund your health care?

and if recent history proves anything there is nothing that guaranties your investments will be there...no matter how good they look at the moment.

[Mnemosyne]

13. It's good you feel safe CSP , but

do you suppose there is a reason Bill Gates has been switching his wealth to euros?

In peace and hope,
V

[leftofthedial]

16. you are part of the last remnant of the temporarily semi-comfortable

middle class.

how quaint.

maybe you'll get lucky and die before the corporatists take it all away from you too.

[Common Sense Party]

19. What you call "quaint," I call "normal."

How are the "corporatists" going to take away my savings?

What alternative social structure do you propose?

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. Oligarchy.

In this case, it is possible that oiligarchy is more appropriate.

[enigma000]

6. Plutocracy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy

A plutocracy is a form of government where all the state's decisions are centralized in an affluent wealthy class of citizenry, and the degree of economic inequality is high while the level of social mobility is low. This can apply to a multitude of government systems, as the key elements of plutocracy transcend and often occur concomitantly with the features of those systems. The word "plutocracy" itself is derived from the ancient Greek root ploutos, meaning wealth.

[undergroundpanther]

7. Kakistocracy

kakistocracy

SYLLABICATION: kak·is·toc·ra·cy
PRONUNCIATION: kk-stkr-s, käk-
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. kak·is·toc·ra·cies


****Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.***

ETYMOLOGY: Greek kakistos, worst, superlative of kakos, bad; see caco– + –cracy.

[Angry Girl]

15. Kakistoplutocracy, also known as Bush World

Where the least qualified and most corrupt among the rich are in power.

[phusion]

8. Bushocracy n/t

[Yollam]

9. Bush calls it "the Ownership Society"

The rest of us call it a fascist plutocracy.

[Sparkman]

10. By Example: U.S.A., or British Empire, or USSR, or China or Indonesia or

France, Nazi Germany, Automans, all characterized by most if not all of your parameters. imo

[Sparkman]

14. Many 'not so rich' parasitically lather the rich with their adoration.

[JackintheGreen]

17. Ancien Regime

Vive le roi!

[meow2u3]

18. Kleptocracy

Goverment of the crooks, by the crooks, and for the crooks.

[Nutmegger]

20. Crony Capitalism!!!! [nt]

[genie_weenie]

21. good for the rich?

bad for the poor?

Don't know what Poor Richard thinks of it, though!

[LiberalAndProud]

22. Feudalism? /nt

[Toucano]

23. That's what I call it.

Or I might call it a Plantation. :)

[Odin2005]

24. Corporate Republic