About a year ago, CBS News reported on the story of a Marine, Carmelo Rodriguez, who died of skin cancer that military doctors noticed but left untreated.
Rodriguez’s family cannot sue the government for malpractice – the law won’t let them.
By Joe Jarvis
Most people use the term fascist to describe any political beliefs they don’t like.
But the best definition of fascism that I have heard is the means of production being controlled, but not owned, by the government. This is in contrast to socialism where the actual machines, factories, etcetera, are owned and operated by the government.
Trying to remove government control over the economy is therefore quite clearly NOT fascist.
On the other hand, practically every government regulation, bailout, subsidy, or grant is on the fascist scale.
Crony capitalism, protectionism, corporatism: this is fascism. This is where the government intervenes in the economy to pick the winners and the losers… Read the rest of this entry »
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