Nice article. I disagree, however, with your statement concerrning the regime “wrecking a large portion of the U. S. economy in their efforts to delay the inevitable.”

I see these efforts and such others as stopping voucher programs, reducing medicare reimbursements to doctors and lowering charitable deductions as a conscious attempt to wreck the economy so it can be rebuilt on a socialist model. Their obviously counter-productive actions make sense only when viewed through the lens of totalitarianism. The One must create a crisis to exploit, pretend to save us from ourselves and then bask in our adulation.