This is THEIR game plan...

[spacehabitats]

THEY move the factories from states with strong unions to poor, rural areas turning well payed middle-class jobs into minimum wage jobs that are barely enough to pay the rent. THEY did this with the textile and automobile industries, for example. Then (with the help of NAFTA, CAFTA, and WTO) they move the factories overseas where they can hire workers at wages that amount to slavery while leaving the American workers dependent on welfare and food stamps. The few industries that aren't easily exported (such as the agriculture, construction, high tech, service, health care, etc.) are filled with immigrants (legal or illegal) displacing native-born Americans and further eroding the middle-class. Anyone who opposes these trends is called a "protectionist", anti-"free trade", or a "racist". The end result? A nation filled with impoverished people who are busy scrambling just to earn the necessities of life. Without a middle class THEY don't need to fear a revolution or even an effective political campaign to oppose them. And that is the whole idea.

[WilliamC]

The FED and the inflation it causes are killing off the middle-class in America. Now the Alternative Minimum Tax is starting to hit many millions more of middle-class families, perhaps even mine this year. If so it will be an extra ~$3,500 in taxes we will have to pay.

When will people say enough is enough and stop supporting these criminals who vote for huge debts and spending and the tax increases and inflation that supports it? Maybe not until it's too late.

[spacehabitats]

Absolutely! The "tax and spend" policies, budget-busting deficits, and Federal Reserve fiat money system, are ALL part of the grand strategy for destroying the last threat to global fascism: the American middle class.

Actually, even the NeoCon/Democratic foreign policy of global interventionalism is part of the same grand strategy. Bankrupt America by having us pour our finite resources into infinite "money pits" by funding wars/peace-keeping/nation-building/"promoting democracy" in Iraq/Yugoslavia/Somalia/Darfur/Afganistan etc. ad infinitum.