The Dollar Declines as Surveillance Increases

I just got an email from a European Distributor who informed me that she would no longer work with United States Dollars as the value has declined so greatly that it is not worth her time. It is a fact that the value of the dollar is low and poverty, poor health, and bad education define the current culture of the United States. In my trips to Germany and Canada it was glaringly obvious that the quality of life in the U.S. was slumping. What's disturbing is that as poverty is on the rise, so is government surveillance. Check out this article from the LA Times distributed by Free Press. Not only are we witnessing the decline of the economy and continuing to be harmed by neoliberal economic strategies that shift social responsibility away from the state, we are being spied on in the meantime. We live in a country where resources go towards snooping rather than saving lives. Gross.