What happened to Capitalism?

[ethandurant]

What ever happened to capitalism? With all the critical remarks about socialism against Barack Obama after he made that fateful comment about "spreading the wealth", you'd assume that people in this country were staunch capitalists. Apparently that isn't the case at all. You'd assume at least the leaders of large corporations would be

Comments

[littlealbert]

I think I'm with you on this.

[blueonblack]

i agree as well....this bailout thing has seem to gotten out of control

[neilworms]

I'm going to be with you as well on the Auto industry I think its just the heads of the auto companies looking for a corporate welfare check...

However the banking industry, a bailout or some kind of intervention is necessary to help keep the entire economy from collapsing - banks not having the confidence to loan is not a good thing that can lead to all of us hurting.