WASHINGTON - There is broad understanding now that US corporations are and always have been socialist.

With their subsidies, tax breaks, free access and use of common land and now straight hand-outs American corporations are true socialists.

According to a senior Republican aide in the House of Representatives, support is thin among Republicans in that chamber for a $34 billion bailout with a sense that "if we come in and give money now", the socialist corporations, General Motors Corp, Ford Motor Co and Chrysler LLC will be back for more.

These rich guys are asking for a loan, and few strings attached to the money.

Fox News even advocated increasing offshore outsourcing so these companies could get in the black.

We need to demand that if we lend them their bridge loan, they don't use the money and restructuring to offshore jobs to other countries. It's our money, it's our neighbors getting affected, and with these companies teetering on the brink, we have to tell them "you're now our companies."

Real socialist automaking would look like this.

1. we don't give them loans - the government buys a big chunk of the company.

2. auto worker jobs become, basically, government jobs. the government lets the companies operate as before....

3. except to satisfy the social need for transportation, plans are made to convert some plants into making buses. others are going to be used to make a "people's car" -- like Hitler's Volkswagon. People forget that Volkwagen was a kind of "people's car" intended for the masses, and Hitler was its advocate.

Our big thing right now is "green".

An existing, popular design like the Toyota Prius, could be reverse engineered and could be put into production as the people's car. You can always get a better one, but, if you want to buy a new $15,000 hybrid car, the government will make it possible, and provide financing.

Maybe the Volt could be made into the people's car.

So, the government does this for a while, and then eventually, when the company is profitable, or the economy isn't so lousy so the company could be returned to profitability, sells off its shares.