Corporate Socialism for the politically connected rich in Portugal

Lobbying governments and living off the government's treasury is proving to be the most lucrative business venture in some countries. The creation of private consultancies for government deputies and governmental departments,as well as for city mayors, is mushrooming out of proportion into a corrupt system of corporate socialism, while using their rich political connections to set up and maintain powerful financial empires which suck enormous subsidies from the state's public treasury.