Well, that could all be hearsay regarding assistants but it’s probably true.
In economic downturn like now, the gap between the lower class and the middle class will continue to grow. If you’re in the middle class you either don’t make it, or you get lucky and bump into the higher class scale.
Outsourcing, ARM mortgages, and the private banking industry have killed the dollar IMO.
Thomas Jefferson was a smart dude:
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.