I wish for once someone would point out the fact we are still living better than most of the people in the world. Everyone on this board has it better than they have a right to expect. This is still the land of opportunity...
The GOP is still in charge and trying their best to fix that.
They have 3 months left at the helm and they have an agenda: Keep us in Iraq forever, give away what of Our Government isn't yet privatized, and hand over any money left in the treasury to themselves. The goal is to render Our Government so bankrupt and weakened, it will have no way to regulate their affairs ever again. What used to be known as a "Palace Coup."
If the top 1% who runs the GOP and America's finances & industry has their way, we'll be just like El Salvador. 14 families running the show and 99% of us begging for scraps and being shot and kept under heel by death squads under the guise of stomping out Commie Terrorists.
Speaking of Capitalists, pure laizzes-faire Capitalism failed in 1929. It was on life support before then, after panic, after panic. As a political system, it failed only 12 years after the birth of Soviet Collectivization, which choked in 1991. We decided to return to pure capitalism under Bush II and whadya know, it took a schit after less than a decade. If the defintion of Socialism is SOME government control of finances and a nations economy, then fvckin-A, Im a Socialist Red-Card totin' Mofo.