Listening to a podcast from earlier this week, I just heard Thom once again tell the story about the German businessman who didn't mind being taxed at about 60%, because, he said, "I don't want to be a rich man in a poor country."
That seems to be the explicit, accepted goal of today's banksters - to hollow out the American economy, drive the wages of American workers as low as possible, impoverish the vast majority of what's now the middle class, and enrich themselves as much as possible. In other words, to become rich men in a poor country.
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This is what I don't understand about the American far right perspective. Why would you want to be a rich man in a nation which is looking ever more like it's neighbor to the south?...
(Hey, isn't Mexico currently the "home" to the richest man in the world?!! I see that trickle down working a treat...)