Reply #19: Yes, the middle class is shrinking.

[bush_is_wacko]

Withdrawing all social services to the elderly, infirm, and children will put us right back to where we were during the depression. And yes, we are heading in that direction. All the laws and services that were enacted to correct that situation... families having to live in generational housing to help their parents and children survive, are under attack. All the rules and regulations regarding monopolies of natural resources are effectively gone again and the elite are back in control. The conditions which brought this country to it's knees and left the majority out in the streets are already in place. If you don't think the elite know this and have moved their funds to a place where the collapse of our economy will not effect them you are mistaken. The depression made a lot of people VERY poor, but it also made a lot of wealthy men EVEN more powerful and the bush family benefited from that era as much as the Rockefeller's and Kennedy's did.

This whole situation is a set-up! Ask anyone that works for a commodities company or the US government and will not benefit from the collapse and they will tell you these companies are funneling their money EVERYWHERE but into the United States.

Misappropriations of funds is RAMPANT in out government right now. Anyone that complains is treated with kid gloves to get them to acquiesce to the missing funds. If they have a history of whistle blowing and they complain loud enough they are essentially given the opportunity for an early buyout retirement and the misappropriated funds are at least "temporarily" found for them and put back on the books. I have no doubt the moment they no longer have access to that information those founds go missing again.

The situation is appalling and it has reached critical mass from what I can tell. Somethings gotta give and it is going to happen sooner rather than later IMO!