The embrace of an expensive weapons system with widely disputed merits, [Rep. Suzi Wizowaty, D-Burlington] continued, “will increasingly tie Vermonters to military spending.”

(Burlington F-35 opposition forms, Burlington Free Press, 07/14/10)

Wizowaty was referring specifically to the possibility that Burlington’s airport might become home to a new generation of ultra-expensive war machines (the F-35), but her words of caution here apply to the whole Welch/Leahy/Sanders supported military-industrial welfare complex.

Classical fascism as defined by Benito Mussolini involves the melding of corporate and state governance combined with a militaristic foreign policy. Sound familiar to anyone?