I think all of you bring up a great points. I guess we’re so stuck into the capitalist mindset, which is what we know/understand, that we can’t seem to see outside of box.
You’re right, once the goverent/tax payers bail out any private entity – based on the capitalist mind set – it makes no point in investing in them/system any longer(it is a false capitalist system). I see this bail out the greatest mistake ever – there is no way to return to what we know today as CAPITALISM.Who would trust it? Who could trust our MARKETING of – freedom of choice/dream achievers/free markets/lots of choices – when the government overwrites all the above in case of “major troubles”. It is not a sustainable system. This is just another delayed bubble – we bailed out the DOT COM bust with a HOUSING BOOM – there wasn’t a next bubble to run into the sky.
Think about it this way:
1) CAPITALIST VIEW: The American Dream: – Own a house (30 yrs investment + lifetime of taxes)…..plenty of options- as we know the system
2) SOCIALIST VIEW: The Choices Dream: – they already have government housing (dream already achieved)..the real issues – choices/diferentiation.
3) CAPITAL-SOCIAL (Oligarchy system): still have the choices/dreams – but don’t bother the political system which controls everything – we’re there right now – it makes NO differece if you vote DEM or REP in my mind….the cards are played, just the circus continues.
– I guess CHINA is already on the this track as well as Russia, in a different format. Due to plenty of financial pressures, mostly due to surviving on a credit card/borrowed money, the USA is transitioning to this system as well – in its own way.
