Reply #33: Isn't this a lot like a 3rd world banana republic?

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People are starving in the streets, citizens can't afford electricity and water. There is very little commerce aside from shipping out natural resources and a few services catering to the uber wealthy. Yet, somehow the elite few can afford huge mansions, backyard pools, limousines, servants and bodyguards.

Our tax dollars being used to pay billion dollar salaries for the aristocracy that has destroyed the largest consumer market in the history of the world. China, India and Korea combined add up to only a quarter of the market the US use to be before 2002. Yet we are paying with our tax money, the billion dollar bonuses of the idiots who destroyed our markets.

Now that's what I call Republican socialism.