Posted on 02/15/2010 3:33:08 AM PST by Scanian
In his bestseller "Inside USA," the hugely reada ble journalist John Gun ther described America as it was in the last year of World War II. He interviewed hundreds of politicians, businessmen and journalists, but only four men rated a separate chapter -- three politicians and Henry J. Kaiser, the California construction magnate who built dams and ships and manufactured concrete and steel and aluminum.
Kaiser was, Gunther wrote, "tough, creative, packed with ideas and energy, above all a man who likes to make things." But he was also, he noted, a "link of enterprise by government, since government was on his side." (snip)...
Fast forward to the present day. Lobbyists, reports the Center for Responsive Politics, had a record 2009 in Barack Obama's Washington. Despite candidate Obama's promises to shun them, they raked in $3,470,000,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Crony-capitalism is really fascist economics. Back in the 1930’s, plenty of people called FDR a fascist. And they were right. If you get rid of private enterprise, then it’s straight socialism. If you keep private enterprise, but have the government play the role of picking winners and losers, then it’s fascism.
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No democrat party media outlet has yet gone after all the crooked Washington crony politicians with stock options, investments, and other financial interests in the Man-Made Global Warming Hoax.
To cite but one example, The British press reports that Al Gore stands to become the world’s first carbon credit billionaire.
And I’ll bet the farm that Pelosi, Waxman, and loads of Obama scum like Carol Browner are all in for the fix.
British research into Al Gore’s criminal profiteering:
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