I’ll start by saying — you can trust me on this one — I was born and bred in the USSR.  Being an Air Force brat, I’ve traveled the former USSR like it’s nobody’s business, and have been to almost every former Republic, hanging around Ukraine the most.

You know all these bailouts you hear about on TV — banks, financial services firms, insurance firms, and now car makes, public transit, smaller countries (like … hm … UKRAINE) … what’s next?  Probably, entitlement programs, cities, schools, etc.

What they are doing is worse than communist.  Proof?

The government (We The People) is giving those organizations money/loans, and in return we all are supposedly receiving stakes in those organizations.  Oh, where to start — this is called nationalization, and it happens all the time in countries like Cuba, Chile, Czech Republic … but those countires don’t claim to believe in “free market” oh so deeply.  So hypocritical of us.

Secondly, at least in Ukraine they had the decency to nationalize former USSR assets, and give you a physical certificate for your chunk of whatever they were nationalizing at the time (industry, farming, etc).  You actually got a piece of paper with your name on it, and it was worth quite a bit at the time.  We called them “vouchers”.

And here in the States, entire industries are being nationalized, and we get jack shit for it because we “believe in free market”.  Ugh … so mad.

And then entire industries, like car makers in Detroit, are lining up and requesting taxpayer money — you know what, fuck it, I’m done.