tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post3463745960515351511..comments2024-02-29T00:46:38.800-08:00Comments on Washingtons Blog: FREE Market? Ha Ha, That's Funny!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-84968474788566176062009-07-30T19:20:50.916-07:002009-07-30T19:20:50.916-07:00Anon, you're complacent about a feudal relatio...Anon, you're complacent about a feudal relationship maintaining concentrated power that's sucking trillions of our dollars out of our hands and into their hidden tax-exempt accounts. That's all that you want, that's the extent of your imagination to take the crumbs from their table? Tell me if you would feel better simply telling these oligarchs, "No. You may work for your money, but you cannot steal mine."Carl Hermanhttp://classlink.lcusd.net/classlink/viewfiles.php?pid=4096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-33098070609123592372009-07-30T17:22:52.816-07:002009-07-30T17:22:52.816-07:00Let's go to our "way,way back" machi...Let's go to our "way,way back" machine. Take a trip to Italy, Circa 1500. Our destination? Florence. What do we see? A tower higher than any other. We ask ourselves "why did someone spend so much time and energy to build such a high tower?" Soon we find out. All the Medici insiders are running to the docks. They seem to know something we don't. A ship is coming in. Front running? smarts? <br /><br />It's been happening for eons. Get used to it. Get your piece.<br />RBMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-90290086016858730592009-07-30T16:36:52.776-07:002009-07-30T16:36:52.776-07:00Brilliant documentation, George. Our political eco...Brilliant documentation, George. Our political economy is fascist, not free market. I speak as a teacher of US government and am making an academic argument, not an emotional outburst. Let's look. Fascism is difficult to define, as there are some variations. However, these are common themes that academics seem comfortable with: corporatism like you document so well, expansionary military policy such as US constant wars to give countries "freedom", suppression of dissent such as torture and application of the 2006 Military Commissions Act against US citizens (it's unconstitutional against everyone, as the Constitution gives the Bill of Rights to all "persons"), and rigged elections like we have with unaccountable electronic voting machines.Carl Hermanhttp://classlink.lcusd.net/classlink/viewfiles.php?pid=4096noreply@blogger.com