Ignorance or malice?

America's consistent retreat from victory over the last century cannot be the result of buffoonery, silly mistakes, blunders, good intentions gone awry, or blind chance - had it been, the individuals making those decisions would surely have made a few mistakes in our favor. Alas, they have not... ~ John McManus

"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." ~ John Maynard Keynes, Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920)

The system will be made up of a single currency, single centrally financed government, single tax system, single language, single political system, single world court of justice, single head (one individual leader), single state religion. ... Each person will have a registered number, without which he will not be allowed to buy or sell; and there will be one universal world church. Anyone who refuses to take part in this universal system will have no right to exist."
-- Dr. Kurt E. Koch, Professor

"The changing nature of the threats facing America requires a new government structure to protect against invisible enemies." ("We will have a new form of Government") --George W. Bush