From a principled standpoint, I am a Free Market Capitalist. I look back on the oginial American colonies, and the freedom...and cooperation...that allowed men to turn barely-surviving groups of men into a nation powerful enough to defeat their English Overlords.

Within 150 years of obtaining freedom, The United States became arguably the most powerful nation on earth. The United States led a continent in growth of ideas, inventions, power...such that when the need arised to defend allies in Europe, they were able to convert a domestic supply chain of automobile and other manufacturing into the greatest War Machine ever built.

I will grant the caviat that the Americas, being seperated from two World Wars by an ocean, did not suffer the destruction of said wars, and thus it can be said that the power of the US is not devired from their progress and freedom, but instead from their safety by distance....but I will counter that before these wars, the United States, in its relative isolation, grew and prospered and invented and gained wealth and power because Corporations were free to grow unchecked by government regulation.

....dot....dot...dot....

Today, we have a nation that, over the last 100 years, has come to embrace government regulation to "protect" the little man. We have come to embrace a tax system that didn't exist even in the imagination of politicians 100 years ago....and we are also ruled by Corporations that have a stranglehold upon society.

I recently started a business becuase I was unemployed, and decided to go it alone. I initially calculated the "pure" cost of doing business...the cost of my product, and the cost to sell it. I then started adding in to the equation expenses: Payroll taxes, income taxes, license fees, etc. A profitable business became barely worthwhile once I installed government into the equation.

But...my competition...the established corporations...they survive with the same equation. How?

GE....General Electric...made **billions** in profit...and yet they paid no taxes. (Coincidently, they have, 1: CLOSE relations with Obama....though tax code was in place before this relationship was in place.... and 2: they have been moving jobs over seas as fast as possible....)

To the main topic point....Feifdoms....

GE is a multipnational corporation that controls media organizations, that has close relations with the King...er....President Obama...and has enough lobbiests that the laws have been so deranged that a multi-billion dollar corporation pays no taxes.

HOW can I compete with GE?

I am a peasant who has found a sword and learned to fight well....

But the Tournament is rigged.

I can not start a business to compete against the big Multi-Nationals, because they set the laws, by BUYING the politicians.

The American Dream is dead. You will never be the bigges and the greatest....because those roles have been taken, and the government backs them through skewed tax policy.

Free Market capitalism works....once worked....but it no longer exists. And you....the little man scrounging for wages....begging for "benefits"....are the poor slob mucking through the field...

OK....vodka is involved in this....so if my writing is less than coherent at moments, I will blame Russia... :P But I *DO* feel like a peasant in a Corporate Feifdom. Do you???