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"The biggest problem with this Warner character is that he is a corporatist - historically a problem that cost this nation $350,000,000,000 in an earlier time as well as hundreds of thousands of lives."

Oh. Gee. Wowie. A "lesson". Can't wait.

OK, please............for the cheap seats: Define "corporatist". The ol' Webster's Seventh Collegiate fails.

While you're at it, let's all learn together about the origin of those Really Really Big Numbers you mention, k?

This brief pretty much gives you the flavor of it all. Apparantly you missed out on the existence of WWII. Self-education would seem to be in order. BTW, you can spell it "corporatist" or "corpratist" - both spellings have been used over the last 70+ years for this variation on a theme.

Ralph Nader also fits within this framework.

http://www.banned-books.com/truth-seeker/1994archive/121_3/ts213l.html

Economic Fascism

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

When most people hear the word "fascism" they naturally think of its ugly racism and anti-Semitism as practiced by the totalitarian regimes of Mussolini and Hitler. But there was also an economic policy component of fascism, known in Europe during the 1920s and '30s as "corporatism," that was an essential ingredient of economic totalitarianism as practiced by Mussolini and Hitler. So- called corporatism was adopted in Italy and Germany during the 1930s and was held up as a "model" by quite a few intellectuals and policy makers in the United States and Europe. A version of economic fascism was in fact adopted in the United States in the 1930s and survives to this day. In the United States these policies were not called "fascism" but "planned capitalism." The word fascism may no longer be politically acceptable, but its synonym "industrial policy" is as popular as ever.