tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885340672616713863.post3325610508396529832..comments2023-09-25T04:08:57.897-04:00Comments on American Counterpoint: A Dystopian ViewKeith Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18115490864347645607noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885340672616713863.post-41412100654917092572015-05-22T06:30:52.396-04:002015-05-22T06:30:52.396-04:00In singling out the defense industry, you seem to ...In singling out the defense industry, you seem to be basing your argument on what has in fact been the least private of private business for a long time, i.e., Eisenhower’s “military industrial complex”. It’s my observation that, rather than moving away from this model, our modern day Democratic Party is rather attempting to extend it to the rest of the economy. In such a system, private enterprise morphs into crony capitalism and is reduced largely to a competition for public funding. It’s a fool’s errand here trying to determine who’s actually captured whom, because public and private actors have captured one another. Oddly, the system we seemed to be gravitating towards is not unlike that prevailing today in China, Russia and other quasi-socialist, quasi-capitalist nations. <br /><br />It occurs to me that what we’re both saying here may not be all that contrary, except that you persist in believing that Obama is laboring to fix the problem rather than being part of it.<br />Mark Bachmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16864483782023806885noreply@blogger.com