the rubric of a "bail-out" while unemployment ascends toward the level of the Depression is an amazing development. We will likely not see any meaningful investigation of the issue because the culture of "entitlement" has formed a carapace of self-infatuation around our government and the government itself is stacked deeply with the denizens of entitlement from top to bottom. We think we do not have a House of Lords but it is in the majority and owns its only historic check: the Common and its media. To make matters worse, this nobility is a technocratic one and scoffs at the things which have built the society they so assiduously mine. We have class but it is increasingly class-less in all but material goods. This is a civilization whose only record shall be landfill jammed to the rafters with technological wonders and fancy packaging. This leads me to the final point..... our reliance upon a federal edifice to solve our problems. Since our emergence from WWII with our industrial capacity energized and our control of the oil fields strong, the United States has been the anointed policeman across the globe. For 60 years now we have been expensively armed and in search of an arrest. This mantle of security won the Cold War but it also has resulted in the current insecurity . Despite our gargantuan investment over many decades, 19 men.... for the cost of boxcutters and a plane ticket.... rocked us to the core and virtually reinvented the power