Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, (from Greek: κλέπτης - kleptēs, "thief"[1] and κράτος - kratos, "power, rule",[2] hence "rule by thieves") is a form of political and government corruption where the government exists to increase the personal wealth and political power of its officials and the ruling class at the expense of the wider population, often without pretense of honest service...
How a "democracy" with a Constitution devolved into a kleptocracy, will be a question for the historians and archaeologists to sort out. Suffice to say, it's a cautionary tale. Of course, the foodstamp diversion is a clever little bread crumb - it gives the Faux Newstards something to vent phony righteous indignation about - as in, look at all this redistribution ! All while the corporate estate sale is liquidating everything that's not bolted down and stashing the proceeds in offshore bank accounts. A nifty trick to guilt the wage slaves at large out of rioting for a few more days. Granted, it helps that the stewed masses have apparently no perspective on just how badly they are getting fucked over. They don't show these stats on American Idol...
