greedlock
n.— «The Bush administration has replaced gridlock with greedlock. While most of us are standing still, victims of government greedlock, a minority of wealth-takers are going unchallenged in their sacking of wealth we all jointly produce.» —“Bush’s politics of greed: Replacing gridlock with ‘greedlock’” by Ben Tanosborn Online Journal June 25, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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