A pity your article didn’t make it David. That a 2nd civil war could be related to a few hundred trillion debt for taxpayers seems reasonable though
:-D

But I wonder if enough revolutionaries have been left. Fluoridation of tap water is common in the US and yet the Pooh-Bahs in charge knew the disastrous effects on the population long ago:
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– USAF Major George R. Jordan testified before Un-American Activity committees of Congress in the 1950’s that in his post as U.S.-Soviet liaison officer, the Soviets openly admitted to “Using the fluoride in the water supplies in their concentration camps, to make the prisoners stupid, docile, and subservient.”

– The first occurrence of fluoridated drinking water on Earth was found in Germany’s Nazi prison camps. The Gestapo had little concern about fluoride’s supposed effect on children’s teeth; their alleged reason for mass-medicating water with sodium fluoride was to sterilize humans and force the people in their concentration camps into calm submission. (Ref. book: “The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben” by Joseph Borkin.) Read, US Lend/Lease Sent Fluoride to USSR to make prisoners docile…at http://66.102.9.104:80/search?q=cache:mnnaokzICRoJ:boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?threadID=800000240&messageID=800007763%2Bfluoride%2Bnazis&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=uk

– 97% of western Europe has rejected fluoridated water due to the known health risks, however 10% of Britons drink it and the UK government is trying to fast track the fluoridation of the entire country’s water supply.

http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2008/03/10729.php

“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it all back again. However, take this great power away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and control credit.”
– Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of England in the 1920s, the second richest man in Britain

Without those corrupt agencies foreign investors couldn’t have been suckered into buying AAA rated “securities” which turned out to be utter trash.

Summarized, the economic condition of the USA is far worse than prof. Kotlikoff describes. Only a bankrupt nation like the USA needs a PPT (Plunge Protection Team) to shore up the DOW: without it, the DOW would be around 5,000. Because jobs continue to disappear in the US but 70% of GDP comes from consumer spending, recovery there is a pipe dream.