And none of that hairsplitting bullshit about how supposedly “capitalism” and “mercantilism” are different, either. The inescapable fact staring everybody in the face (especially so-called “libertarians and the Pro-business conservatives in all nations) is that “businessmen” — especially corporate businessmen — don’t want a “free” market, and never have.

A “Free market” wouldn’t empower the State to grant monopolies, even for a “limited time”. So much for patents and copyright, which — despite all the lying idiocy spewed to the contrary, are NOTHING but the use of State (government) coercive power to prevent “unauthorized” competition in a given field.

A “free market” would most likely lack any kind of “corporate” structure, and would damn sure lack the perks involved by incorporation: limited liability, corporate “personhood”, and the “veil” seperating “personal” assets from “corporate” assets all encourage irresponsibility by corporate CEOs. Why? The vermin know that — barring very unusual circumstances — the “corporate veil” ensures that no matter what the company does or now drastically mismanaged it is, their “personal” houses, yachts, fleets of automobiles, etc. won’t be endangered.

And, lest we all forget, if one of these behemoths actually DOES run the risk of crashing, cronies in Government are sure to step in and save their pin-striped asses. Why? Well, we’ve all been mindfucked with the “free enterprise” myth for so long that even asking questions about corporate power and IP monopolies is considered “left-wing”.

Fine. So be it. Let’s all give Carribou Barbie one and conceed that failing to uncritically suck corporate cock == “socialism”.

Bottom line of the matter is that I genuinely hope the RIAA member companies — EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM — are hemmhoraging money, and the entire edifice crashes. Fuck life-plus-70. Hell, fuck 14 years, since obviously the lobbyists couldn’t be trusted to be content with a smaller monopoly.

Capitalism itself is to blame. Greed caused the crisis we are in at the moment. In fact greed has created every single economic crisis; which makes on question the virtues of a capitalistic society. And how do governments around the world respond? They give them a slap on the wrist, pay off their debts, and it’s business as usual; well at least until they do it all over again lol. Seriously, giving these rich bankers ‘carte blanche’ to get themselves out of the hole of their creation sets a terrible precedent and certainly does encourage a culture change in wallstreet or other financial institutions, for this socialism for business, or welfare for business, which ever is more appropriate, but one thing is for sure, it’s certainly not capitalism. If these companies self-destruct through their own greed, why shouldn’t they go bankrupt? It’s entirely prejudiced to selectively subsidise specific industries while allowing others to collapse a la auto industry and others.

While we are on the topic, where do all these imaginary trillions originate from? they seem to pull them out of a hat like a rabbit in a magic show. Is some shadowy group operating in the background to forcibly enslave the population through the artificial inflation of currency, itaque the goods they represent?

“Former Nasdaq chairman Bernard L Madoff who was a leading trader on the New York exchange for 50 years, was turned in to federal agents by his sons for running what they said he called a giant “Ponzi scheme.”

Exactly HOW did ONE MAN get away with doing this without others knowing about it?

Seems there is blame to go all around as far as the economy, but I won’t be shedding any tears for an industry that has turned on it’s former customers so bad that they are willing to sue them into bankruptcy for filesharing!

On a related note, Bush is not the only one who deserves shoes in his face. Harper should definitely get one.

By the way, they did it again! In Ukraine, a journalist threw _boots_ at a pro-NATO speaker.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ea_1229701785

After Muthathar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist, threw both his shoes at President George W. Bush during a news conference in Baghdad, the method of protest seems to be gaining popularity in other countries. In Odessa, during the opening ceremony of the Euro Atlantic Cooperation Centre which took place in the South-Ukrainian Pedagogical University, a journalist expressed his protest is a similar way.

Around 100 students were present at the ceremony. Oleg Soskin, a member of the Ukraine-NATO Social League Coordination Council, was making a speech when he was interrupted by a journalist from one of the local TV channels, who shouted: “Students, you’re young and promising, don’t you listen to these stupid and marasmic old homosexuals!” The journalist then took off his boots and threw them at Soskin.

If i were in charge a welfare id even make it so ya cant get none.

Cheers!