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The term is Corporate Socialism, and the concept is that while the profits are indeed tagged for private retention, the FAILINGS of the system are indeed "socialized" -- that is WE CONSUMERS pay for the failures.

If you truly fail to understand this simple feature of today's Capitalism, I point you to the fact that the government recently bailed out the Banks -- rather than let them simply fail, as the "Free Market" myth says they ought to when they screw up.