You miss the point Amos, our respective countries have "outgrown" capitalism.
Fighting the "untrammeled greed mongers" is not going to improve the lot of the poor.
Capitalism depends on the "untrammeled greed mongers" to provide the growth required to keep the show on the road without starvation and rioting.....this is a fact of political life. We are completely in the control of the system.

We are now uncompetitive compared with the East, we can no longer work our way out of trouble, unless we are prepared to accept the standards of Indian or Chinese workers......thats where the clever money is going, as an exploitative comodity we are no longer worth the bother.......but there are still parasitic corporations which will feed on us, once we give them our savings and pensions to set up another mythical boom.

Obama himself must understand what is happening, but if he really cared for the US people he would be raging against a political system which perpetuates the lie that greed can be banished and any sort of equality can evolve within it.

But even if Obama was a radical his cause would be hopeless the two party divisivness is too entrenched. America beneath the shit stands for freedom and liberty, not a future as Bruce says "based on exploitation"....by the corporations OR the state.

Time to break the mould.