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| Subject: The Humping-Dog Factor: Why America feels more socialist than capitalist Thu Oct 31, 2013 11:31 pm | |
| By Claire Wolfe
You go to work and you're choked by PC speech codes, obnoxious nannying of your personal behavior, total surveillance, and pee-in-a-bottle drug-war tactics. You go shopping and stores and credit-card companies gather astonishing amounts of private information about you and sell it to the FBI or the Pentagon among others. Stagger into the emergency room, sick and desperate, and the hospital forces you to sign an “agreement†giving them permission to rape your privacy – under the federal government's rules and for the government's benefit.
You go into a “private†bank or a “private†mailbox service and they demand a raft of government requirements from you. When you don't like the way one megacorporation treats you, you take your business elsewhere – only to discover that every other company in the increasingly heavily regulated field treats you identically.
And then they tell you this is what it's like to be a part of the greatest economic system ever devised by the human race. This is capitalism. This is the economic system of the free.
Horsefeathers.
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