[quote=harvey]
Turn on CNBC and relax. Free markets and capitalism are alive and well in America.[/quote]

What free market? Every regulated in many forms. Nearly all the major companies highlighted on CNBC are majority institutionally owned, which is collectively being run by an employee to further the agenda of the owners (mostly the people of the USA). The companies use government subsidizes or programs and from governance standpoint, are controlled largely by the employees. Yes, the CEO of publically traded companies are mostly employees. Their boards, even if they are not outright being politically correct and socialists are promoting social goals. Take a look at Disney or virtually any other large corporate board.

If you want to see Capitalism, you need to roll back to about 1890. This thread as been rife with confusion between communism and socialism.

But sure, keep thinking we’re all self-made capitalists. IMHO, if the bottom 90% of republicans or even democrats got a real taste of being exposed to raw capitalism, they’d run screaming.