Well, to be honest with you I don't think your re-definition will work. Too many of us were raised with the definition including State ownership of business, usually basic industries and utilities.

To try to bring into the definition of "socialist" State subsidies to private enterprise, collectively owned in some cases but by stockholders, just doesn't seem to work.

How much more of this is it going to take before you figure out that GWB is for super-rich people, period, sometimes under the guise of "free enterprise".

When the interests of rich people butt up against "free enterprise", he comes down on the side of super-rich people. In other words, when GWB has to choose between the principle of "free enterprise" and giving tax dollars to rich people, he chooses to funnel the money directly to them.

Watch what he does, not what he says, and you'll wonder why it took so long to figure it out. He speaks with forked tongue, out of both sides of that silly little self-satisfied grin.

Arf