American Fascism: Corporatism

it's not govt that's the problem; it's corporatism--govt/business incest

clipped from www.strike-the-root.com A market free of government interference is what most Republican voters think they are supporting, but what the Republican Party supports – especially in the actions of its members in office (Ron Paul excepted) – is not free markets but corporatism. The difference between genuine free markets and corporatism is essentially the difference between a politically free country and Hitler's Germany or Mussolini's Italy : corporatism is basically fascist in nature, with business and government entwined in an unhealthy embrace of the financially powerful with the politically powerful. Regular, non-powerful people are simply out of luck. A perfect (and rather sickening) example is the USDA forbidding cattle ranchers (and any private firm) from testing their own cattle for Mad Cow disease, something unthinkable in a free society. Some years ago, noted philosopher Ringo Starr described an important and now-famous discovery: "Everything government touches turns to crap."