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To: tejek who wrote (467018)	3/28/2009 1:44:50 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1576627

But he isn't moving us towards "fascist economics". That's a rightwing fantasy. Could fascism ever come to the United States? "Sure, only here they'll call it anti-fascism" -- Huey P. Long The idea that fascism springs from the Right is a story tale that was made up by the Left -- most of whom could not define fascism if their lives depended on it. The reality is that fascism is not a "left" or a "right" activity. Huey Long himself set up a fascist state in Louisiana. And would have tried to do the same had he been elected president -- and very well might have been successful. I guess you all don't recognize the extent at which the right has fukked things up. The US is being blamed, and rightly so, for the current global economic crisis. Yes, of course the Right did it. youtube.com The world sees the US involvement in Iraq as a net negative. And I put the blame squarely on American winger policies, philosophies and ideology. Finally, we have a president who is setting things right and wingers are conjuring up all kinds of weird and fantasical accusations meant to derail his presidency. Its enough, Tim. The right's ideology is built on a foundation of lies, myths and other non facts. Its time the right cleans up its act.

To: tejek who wrote (467018)	4/1/2009 8:00:44 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576627

Obama Throws the F-Bomb David Henderson No, not that one; I wish. President Obama has done something far more serious. He has already, in less than 100 days, moved the U.S. economy further towards fascism. Sean Hannity and other critics keep criticizing Obama for his socialist leanings. But the more accurate term for many of his measures, especially in the financial markets and the auto market, is fascism. Here's what Sheldon Richman writes about "Fascism" in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Where socialism sought totalitarian control of a society's economic processes through direct state operation of the means of production, fascism sought that control indirectly, through domination of nominally private owners. Where socialism nationalized property explicitly, fascism did so implicitly, by requiring owners to use their property in the "national interest"--that is, as the autocratic authority conceived it. (Nevertheless, a few industries were operated by the state.) Where socialism abolished all market relations outright, fascism left the appearance of market relations while planning all economic activities. Where socialism abolished money and prices, fascism controlled the monetary system and set all prices and wages politically. In doing all this, fascism denatured the marketplace. Entrepreneurship was abolished. State ministries, rather than consumers, determined what was produced and under what conditions. President Obama shouldn't get all the blame. Former President Bush took us a big step in that direction with his bailout. But when a President actually fires the president of a major company and decides to change the terms of that company's warranty on its products, that President has taken a major step. (H/T on the warranty point to Tyler Cowen.) econlog.econlib.org