I hope you are right. There is a lot of info out there that Haliburton is building prisons everywhere. Many are concerned with the refusal by congress for Rep Jack Brooks to question Gen Patraus about the plan for a continuity of government in the event of a major disaster. Apparently extensive plans for marshal law are in the works and the details of those plans are being denied access by the public as well as other branches of government.

As for being paranoid, that's me. I am scared to death of these people. The working poor everywhere are involved in a major movement of hording food, cashing out 401k's, banking under the mattress, and converting money to barter items such as tools like axes, hammers, saws, preservable commodities.

While this may sound humorous to many people, the economic crunch has been apparent to this group since about the second year of the Bush administration. The working poor are the canaries in the coal mine to the entire nation's economy but no one who reports info about the economy ever concerns themselves with this group much as we are not usually even evaluated in any conversation that doesn't concern minimum wage and how its being increased hurts business. I know many people who have quit their jobs to take lesser Mcjobs because by the time they pay for the gas and clothes to go to a modestly paid job they are worse off than working close to home flipping burgers.

This is what I did concerning my job working for the community college teaching reading to disabled adults. After hour cuts and more demand for us to give unpaid hours and many of our hours deregulated to minimum wage pay even though we were professionals I realized I was working for less than minimum wage. I was netting about $500 bucks after gas and taxes a month. Further, I was being basically blackmailed to create very extensive curriculum for them on my own time in which they made no excuses that they would retaining as their intellectual property or be considered incorrigible. This may sound off topic, however, the lower paid workers have seen that employers have balanced budgets on the backs of their most desperate employees and basically blackmail them ala the Walmart Model demanding more and more off the clock time "donated". This is the true "trickle down affect".

In other words this group is feeling very paranoid and intimidated. There seems to be no limit to the extent that one group will use another and we have seen this problem escalate to a point that would have been previously considered highly illegal. I myself and people I know in this group have felt a more vicious and ruthless government and we are reaching the breaking point. Many are expecting these prisons to be used as debtor prisons. Our inability to get anything but bare minimal sore throat level health care is also manifesting itself as a way to squeeze a peasant, so to speak, of every little thing they may own until they have nothing as they grapple to pay for high cost care alone. Concentration camps for Americans seems highly likely to us. As more and more middle class Americans begin to feel the true brunt of this ruthless wealth shifting administration, more people will begin to realize that we are dealing with a group of sociopaths and there is no limit to what they are willing to do to people.