so far everything I have read is good.....we must remember that this process of getting sold down the river has been a work in progress for along time.
We can go back to the Wilson admin. when the federal reserve bank was created in 1913...here is a good article be martin
http://www.worldnewsstand.net/today/articles/fedprivatelyowned.htm
That was the first selloff of america.
The next one that stands out in my eyes is when tricky dicky got rid of the gold standard thus allowing the fed reserve bank( which is privately owned) to set interest and valuation, I believe in 1974.
We be slaves now.
Lothar is right...its been downhill since 1913.