Panetta to recommend pay cut for military

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16. We have a political/social disease called "Corporatocracy"

corporatocracy 1. A social and economic class of rulers, defined by their involvement in the ownership and management of large corporations.
2. The social and economic structures that empower and protect such rulers.
3. The political culture that serves such rulers.
We can't get this bill passed because the corporatocracy doesn't want it.

Growing ever nearer to Kleptocracy

Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, (from Greek: ??έ???? - kleptēs, "thief"[1] and ??ά??? - kratos, "power, rule",[2] hence "rule by thieves&quot is a form of political and government corruption where the government exists to increase the personal wealth and political power of its officials and the ruling class at the expense of the wider population, often without pretense of honest service. This type of government corruption is often achieved by the embezzlement of state funds


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy