Reply #16: Its all so predictable isn't it. Given that, can't we make alternative plans based on

[earcandle]

such predictions... I am talking about we the people, not the
oligarchy in charge.  

Lets ask our new hacker soldiers to invent us a form of
Mondragon trading system so that
we, the people, can trade goods and services with our our
forms of currency based on our labor.

Then let us bypass this crap and watch them fall, while we
hold ourselves together with our new brainhats in place! 

The American spirit, when it is clear, is a powerful mechanism
for change.