The brutal truth from Robert Scheer

[marmar]

from truthdig:




.........(snip).........

Big government, the devil that Republicans love to inveigh against, is big precisely because it is so active in so many costly ways in serving the interests of our biggest corporations. Corporate lobbyists attest with their every breath that big government and big business are bedmates in a bountiful venture that impoverishes the rest of us. It is time to admit that we are, in practice if not surface appearance, close to the Chinese communist model of state-sponsored capitalism that sacrifices the interests of ordinary workers, be they in the public or private sector, for the exorbitant profits of the superrich. It is the corporations that need big government to protect their interests, and one would hope they would be willing to pay for the services that their government so faithfully renders to make them obscenely wealthy as it studiously ignores the well-being of the rest of us. ...........

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_new_corporate_world_order_20110419

[sinkingfeeling]

1. That statement will cause many Teabaggers' heads to explode.

[AndyTiedye]

2. The Purported Economic System Under Which an Oligarchy Operates

makes less of a difference than some people think.

[Solly Mack]

3. k/r