re: #360 Bill Dalasio

Of course, neither George Schultz nor Dick Cheney were in the government at the time of their serving with their respective companies. Goering was. Moreover, his position as the head of Goering works was not incidental to his role in the government. It was a direct consequence of it.

Come on now you’re smart enough to understand that.

Yes, this is true. But in the Soviet Union, they would not have profited from such companies in the first place, for they could neither have led them from ourside the government, nor received a salary for doing so, nor held any shares of their nonexistent stock.

So apparently, constitutional democracies, fascisms, and communisms are all economically different from each other. Besides being politically different.