I'm surprised no one has mentioned, or even made a thread, about that article in Rolling Stone called The Great American Bubble Machine (
Inside The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone ). The reason I bring that up is because the American economic system is controlled by such a tiny and small group of people that their interests share NOTHING with the other 300 million people in this country. Canada, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have such a corrupt system.
Oh, and I'm about ready to start shooting up shopping malls the next time someone uses socialist to describe when the government props up businesses, often illegally, and passes laws empowering them at the detriment to the majority of other smaller businesses. Sorry kids, but that's called fascism. Doubletalk much, "liberal" media?