McCain's Bailout Bomb Is Yet To Be Dropped

Huffington Post by Jon Raymond | Sep. 24, 2008 (Opinion)

The smoking gun in Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion Cash for Trash, bailout plan, is a kind of (a now typical neocon) disaster capitalism effect (a.k.a. corporate socialism), as Naomi Klein describes in her book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. ...the bomb will drop when and if John McCain is President and is faced with another economic disaster and then has to privatize social security, cut health care, cut food stamps, ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Jon Raymond - Sep 24, 2008 - 7:24 PM PDT
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 by Jon Raymond - Oct. 1, 2008

I am the author of this article. This is based on recent news stories on Naomi Klein's book. Sources are listed.

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