Not much use to a fellow in Baltimore if Harvard owns a trillion dollar cancer cure but keeps it all for itself and its familiars. Funny - an increasing # of middle class Americans have developed similar/comparable views about Congress and our current President.
Personally, I am equally sick of Boehner, Pelosi, Reid, Cantor, McConnell, and of course Barack Obama.
The direction in the U.S. is really one more of a hybrid of fascism and crony capitalism. If you want to see corporate perversion, look at the food stamp model in the U.S.
