"...societies, as often as not, aren’t murdered. They commit suicide: they slit their wrists and then, in the course of many decades, stand by passively and watch themselves bleed to death."

-- THE VANISHING by MALCOLM GLADWELL; 2005-01-03 issue; published to the internet 2004-12-27; newyorker.com

"Adam Smith....pointed out that a major goal of business is to deceive and oppress the public."

-- seedmagazine.com; September 6, 2006

Pick a category below for comparison of the USA today and tomorrow to both the developed world and developing (third world) nations:

This page compares the America of today and tomorrow to other nations, rather than focusing on the actual reasons for America's awful downward slide. To learn more about those, there's the links below:

How to get rich in America REFERENCE

They own you and all your property too

Things only Americans worry about

America's de facto domestic and foreign policies of artificial scarcity and institutionalized poverty, Part One and Part Two

The enormous hidden costs to society of 'right-wing' political governance

What the rich do with their astonishing freedom from taxes (or, why we can't afford for the rich to pay higher taxes)