Amos(and re-quoted by Little Hawk): "My point is that I can sympathize with GfS and LH's broad mistrust and their assertions about the secret string pulling at the top levels of government. But like the economy, it doesn't actually percolate from the top down, but from the hidden middle outward."

OK, just listen up and consider.....unless the economy and productivity, are under siege(look up definition), to weaken the resolve, of a nation of people, to replace the system, means of exchange, redefining freedom..and the mere tolerance of any remnant of it, and selectively criminalizing any perceived threat, either real or not, at the discretion of those few, who manipulated their way to the top.....EVERYONE else, then becomes, either disposable or a threat, for posing ANYTHING that could be needed or producing anything depended on! ESPECIALLY..the most powerful thing; an independent thought.

GfS