The Transnational Homeland Security State and the Decline of Democracy http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MAR20100415&articleId=18676

'As the western world is thrown into debt bondage and the harsh reality of the draconian economic ‘reforms’ to follow, a social collapse seems increasingly inevitable. We will soon witness the collapse of western ‘civilization’. The middle classes of the west will dissolve into the lower labour class. The wealthy class, already nearly at par with the middle class in terms of total consumption, will become the only consuming class.'