It's called "corporate America" which by no menas should be confused with capitalism because of its coziness with the governemnt, which it, for all practical purposes, owns lock, stock and barrel...

The real "welfare class" in this country are these corrupt corporations that make the rules to extract more and more from the working class and take more and more, in terms of cutting funds from the programs that were once designed to help folks out of poverty, from the poor...

Meanwhile, our corrupt governemnt just goes along with the highest bidder... The poor don't have lobbiest... They don't make the big cmapaign contributions... They have beeen rendered powerless and Peace is entirely correct that a sustained corrupt system to guarentees a large peasant class is ripe for crime (which we now have which is growing) but also "revolution"... It has happened over and over throughout mankind's history and the US is not exempt from it happening here...

But like I ahve pointed out, it won't start with the folks who have allready been beaten down mentally but will happen with Southern and Midwestern man who finnally figures out that he has been screwed and that he can no longer make ends meet... See, I know Southern Man purdy well having spent all my life around him and, yeah, he is very resistent to change and about the only way that he will change is if he is backed into a corner and he figures out who is doing the backing... Up to now, corporate America has used all kinds of PR ploys to get Southern Man drenkin' his Budweizer, watching NASCAR and listenin' to country music and I have to give corporate Amercica credit where it is due... It continues to work but corporate America (the system) isn't throwing 'nuff bones & taters at Southern Man these days... The off shoring, the out sourcing and the two tiered labor agreements are jsut beginning to hurt Southern Man where he don't like to be hurt and that is his wallet... Corpoarte America saw this coming so they thought they could ***lend*** their way out of it but now Southern Man is in debt up to his knees and wondering just what the Hell is going on...

So, yeah... Revolution is a very real possibility... The US is one Dr Martin Luther King away from Southern Man connecting the dots... Oh sure, as in the past cororate America will assasinate the next Dr. King, as they did the last time around, but once the seed is planted and Southern Man gets it corporate America won't find a PR firm that will turn it around...

Are there any other scenerios???

Well, yes and no... It's gonna come down to a redistribution of wealth one way or another...

And this ain't "Animal Farm" here... When the playing field is level and the laws are passed for the good of our entire society there will be no reason for future revolutions of this magnitude... And this ain't got one danged thing to do with the Democratic party which is just as subject to pressures of corprate America as are the Repubs...

You ask what is the system... I've answered it... Pure and simple....

Bobert