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Between this woman and the McDonald's kid from the town hall meeting yesterday, I am dumbfounded.

last time I saw lips like those, there was a hook in it.

why do you think she went for in vitro?

She should take her side show on the road.

Capitalism at its worst. This nut turns herself into a baby pump, gets a publicist and an agent and will cash in big time.

In capitalism, a person assumes risks and receives rewards largely without Governmental interference. Seeing that this woman has been on public assistance and has shifted the majority of the risk to her children, I wouldn't call this capitalism.

Looks like the term is casino capitalism. It's where you play with someone else's money, but get to keep all the profits.

In actual casinos, however, the house always wins in the end. Maybe not against every individual player (or no one would play), but in total, a successful casino always wins.

I don't think this woman is going to cash in. I think after this the press is going to drop her like a bad habit.

I didn't coin the phrase casino capitalism, and it isn't really reflective of how a casino works.

She may not cash in, but she probably won't foot the bill either.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090212/ap_on_re_us/octuplets

She's attempting to cash in, which was my point (thus the publicist). Often in capitialism, you attempt to profit using some else's money and shifting the risk to them. That's what investment banking is all about.

Shifting risk to another person rarely happens in capitalism without the consent of the person assuming the risk.
Investment banking may shift risks, but it also promises rewards to those assuming it. This situation is only half of that equation.

The answer to whether it is capitalism or not is easily answered by one question.
If it hadn't have been for Government interference, would she have been able to have these octuplets?
If the answer is no, then this is not capitalism per se. It is a hybrid of socialism and capitalism. You can call it casino-capitalism or lemon-socialism, but it is not capitalism.

Agreed with Archi. This is a poor choice for an attack on capitalism.

Actually, no government assistance was required, (and, the best capitalists always take full advantage of governement help - bailout, anyone?), but that is beside the point. I wasn't attackinf capitalism per se, but pointing out that her behaiviour is the worst of it.