I notice a lot, A LOT of 'shorthand' here.
The banks, the unions, ajax hasn't yet said Fat cats, yet, but it's there in subtext.
The banks..... the dollar lost virtually none of it's value between 1813 and 1913. lost near about 95% of it's value between 1913 and today. The fed was created in 1913.
Unions... while I agree that often workers need protection from management, it is more often that management needs protection from workers these days.
Job exportation... well. don't get me started. There are now, and only ever have been three means of wealth creation, and they are???, oh, O.K. they are Mining, Manufacturing, and Agriculture. All else is wealth transfer.
How did we as a nation, imagine that policies and regulations and laws that stifle these activities would benefit us. We imagined this nonsense because social engineers sold us the notion, through the promotion of junk education, junk finance, junk science, junk art, a full-court press against reason.
The United States became not a nation of technical innovation, or wealth creation, or even artistic innovation. (art and industry are jealous sisters, don't forget)
Naah, we've become a 'service sector' and 'consumer' economy.
A heroin addict is a consumer economy.
There are many separate threads that form the ecological, economic , social, spiritual disaster that our nation is becoming. Here are two.
A toxic, fatuous, sense of entitlement among a middle class that is divorced utterly from the means of production, the means of wealth production. ( Ministers and beaureaucrats imagine themselves superior to farmers and miners, police imagine themselves superior to citizens, Kids who've been to college imagine themselves smart.)
Arising from that, a philosophy of nihilism, expressed materially, physically. How else can i say it, except that the god of commercial engineering is " mean time between failure"...What a hell of a lousy way to think. Follow the reasoning and , if you have hearts and minds and souls you'll be as disgusted as i am.
J.O.M.