Is America just another ruined country, or a failing, flailing empire running amuck?
Does what happens in America stay in America, or affect the rest of the world?

Matthew 24:6-7:
(6) And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end [...]

The big corporate government idea is that higher energy prices may make alternative energy competitive, if they do not discourage or bankrupt the American consumer first.
http://www.casttv.com/video/aeljfw8/elvis-presley-what-now-my-love-video 3:26
In late December 2010, John Hofmeister, former President of Shell, warned Platt’s Energy TV viewers Americans could be paying $5 a gallon of gasoline by 2012.

Tom Kloza, chief oil [...]

What is not taught in public school, where most dropouts or graduates cannot name the Capitals or Presidents, let alone recite our Constitution and Bill of Rights:
Are we approaching a HyperTerrorist World War III (IV or V) Armageddon, depending on how we count the Hundred Years’ War and French and Indian Seven Years’ War of Conquest that [...]

GM was a giant ripoff of bondholders, dealers, productive worker living standards, taxpayers and the American Dream.
People around the world were defrauded of their life savings, franchises and vital income for and by an elite few crony union capitalists living it up while everyone else downsized.

An outspoken H Ross Perot was bribed off the GM [...]