Listen up people!

IT IS NOT Capitalism when:

1) Free Trade Agreements allow sweetheart deals to nations or select Stakeholders, thereby undermining Fair Market free enterprise,

2) the USG allows(bought and paid fer - by Lobbyists) preferential tax treatment to businesses moving offshore,

3) when business, big or little, is subsidized by government,

4) pay their own way businesses are competing against government, NGO's or other so called non profits(whether directly or by way of government subsidy) competing in the marketplace of products and services.

Someone could surely do a better job than that but any open eyed observer must acknowledge the US has had an increasingly mixed economy since the days of Hoover. Thereby increasingly negating free market capitalism. In addition, given our present problems any open eyed observer would recognize the our present economic problems were manufactured by the that private business known as the Federal Reserve.

They being the organization that prints the money(inflation), determines monetary policy that allows such problems as derivatives, credit defaults, and all the related rule changes that lead to interest free home loans, nothing down home loans, variable rate home loans that lead to the sub prime mortgage crisis, AND possibly the most critical factor, the Fed determines interest rates(often in conjunction with the other central banks of the world.

What's been going on isn't capitalism, it's far more akin to statist collectivism whether socialism, fascism or communism, you decide.

Hang in there, Mr Obama will be expanding this system that is failing. Pssst! did you notice the financial concerns are scheduled to receive the lions share of the bailout money?! And? upon whose authority it was given them. Or? who's on the hook for repayment.

What has any of that done for you, well unless you work for AIG of the big nine.

peaceably

Btw, what do the Canadians herein think about the revelation they are not an independent people but rather members of the British Empire and subject to the Queen?