The classical definition of fascism is a melding of business/corporation and state further combined with a militant foreign policy.

Your ears should certainly prick to attention when you read

President Obama scored a big victory on Thursday as the Senate Finance Committee rejected a proposal to require pharmaceutical companies to give bigger discounts to Medicare on drugs dispensed to older Americans with low incomes.

(Senate Panel Rejects Bid to Add Drug Discount, NY Times, 09/25/09)

The rejected proposal apparently would have brought in over $100 billion (a thousand thousand thousand dollars) over the next decade in Medicare savings via drug purchases rebates.

In arguing against the proposal, [DC Democratic Senator] Carper said, White House officials told him that “a deal is a deal,” and he agreed.

(ibid)

Yeah, a deal with big corporate daddies is a deal, but for you and me? The middle finger. (And don’t forget this is the DC “leadership” Leahy, Sanders and Welch continue to fawn over.)

Hey … now all we need is a huge military complex on the home front to keep the war machine working overseas!

Oh, we already have that?

Shit.