Does the USA need a perestroika?

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ManusJustus said:

HappySqurriel said:

Although the United States really needs major reductions in government spending (after all the municipal, state and the federal governments are all spending far more than they take in with little benefit for their citizens) I'm not so sure I would follow the example of the USSR ...

I dont see how Gorbachev's reforms of the Soviet Union, where the political elite were given private control of industry, and America's bailing out of big business, is fundamentally any different.  Take from the poor and give to the rich.

If the US government had not intervened at all in the events after the market collapse and the Banking crisis, what do you think would have happened to those same poor and the economy in general? Great Depression, part 2?

It's the lesser of two evils like most stuff in politics ends up being, although I do think more people should have gone to jail for ripping people off which led to the house of cards collapsin, but the rich and powerful have been screwing over the poor and middle class throughout history.