Why Americans should care about what's happening to Greece

The argument that what is happening to Greece is a preview of what's coming in USA certainly has some merit.  One of the reasons that Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames see the criminality on Wall Street with such clarity is that they saw virtually the same crimes being pulled in Russia during the late 1990s.

However, those of us who have been watching the destruction of agriculture and industry in the Midwest since the late 1970s could argue that much of the neoliberal experiment was first tried out here in the good old USA.

Greece a Dress Rehearsal for United States