In which I agree with Arianna Huffington
On Friday, I’m taking part in a debate that will be broadcast on C-SPAN. Howard Dean and I will be crossing rhetorical swords with Dick Armey and John Kasich on the question “America’s Future: Can Capitalism Survive?” The event will be moderated by Joe Scarborough. I plan to make the point that what we have right now is not actually capitalism — it’s corporatism. It’s welfare for the rich. It’s the government picking winners and losers. It’s Wall Street having their taxpayer-funded cake and eating it too. It’s socialized losses and privatized gains.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:06 am
The problem, as I see it, is that no group trusts the others to fix this. I know I don’t trust this current administration to do it.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:21 am
The other problem is that Huffy’s solution won’t be to move more towards more free market driven solutions. At least, I’d be willing to bet that’s not the case.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:26 am
That is Michael Moores point too in his movie capitalism. I can’t disagree.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Robb, I didn’t say i agreed with her solution.
October 28th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Sounds like an ambush on Dick and John. Scarborough does the bidding of his MSNBC masters.
October 28th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Markie Marxist sez: “Can Capitalism Survive? Not likely, seeing as we Marxists have been trying to kill it as fast as we can for many decades and we’ve made great progress. As our great, commie compadre Barney Frank recently put it, “we’re expanding the role of government on all fronts”. El Socialismo marches on under the leadership of Comrade El Presidente Obama! All your private whatever is belong to us!”
October 28th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Stopped clock …
October 28th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Strange. Corporatism, with a “charismatic leader” and government control of production and distribution has a name. Fascism.
Of which HuffPo is one of the leading exponents. Without the name, of course.
Stranger