Lisa, I am not saying that such things are not going on. I am just pointing out that I believe they are not orchestrated by some mastermind or group of masterminds sitting in offices in Switzerland somewhere. People are doing bad things, but, by and large, I think they are random acts of greed and avarice that have coalesced into a seemingly coordinated body of mischief. In other words: I agree, politicians are stealing money. But they are doing it for their own selfish reasons as individuals or members of a small group of ne'r do wells so to speak, not because they have some master plan to dominate the world and enslave everyone and put microchips under everyone's skin. I think that 1984 is a great study in human behavior, but I don't think such an Orwellian system could long endure, because people running such a system would burn themselves out and it would collapse. Also, I believe that a type of divine intervention would crush it before it got too out of hand. Some might call it the hand of God. Others might just call it a natural rebalancing force that is needed to allow mankind to keep from destroying itself. It exists and it doesn't like the kind of inequality that has been built up in this system right now. Bull