Americans need to study their history in order to understand the relationships which exist between institutions and individuals. Everything that is happening is by design. You must remember that any ruling elite, no matter the system, simply views the masses as quanta of labor-power/consumer potential. Alan Greenspan was/is a mouthpiece for the elite and will deny reality to the end. Bill Clinton, in modern times, revealed that if you continually lie with a straight face, most people will tend to believe; as the more dependent they become, the less choices they have, the more they NEED to believe.