In Pottersville (from Its a Wonderful Life) the poor are subject to ridicule while the enforcers are rewarded just enough so they are in the top 5% of community.

The State enforcers have trouble collecting debt because the debtors have nothing to collect.

The government employees getting 60, 70, 80, 120 thousand dollars a year in salary and huge pensions cannot visualize that this creates a class of poor. Some poor slob can't pay a measly thousand dollar debt -- they must be genetically evil or something. The poor bastard who steals to eat or feed a family or to feed an addiction to substances to numb reality must be bad people and deserve their fate. The slave class is here. It is a class that is a slave to the state. Never shall these people be allowed to rise up because the only remaining path to success is to work for the slave owner, the state itself.

The African Slave Trade would NOT have functioned without the cooperation of blacks willing to exploit other blacks by rounding up the less fortunate among them or from other communities.

"Honestly, the state debt goes up and down as the economy fluctuates," said Chris Gasperini, manager of the Other Agency Accounts unit in the Revenue Department. "If we have high unemployment, we'll have higher state debt.

Duh. Why is the State creating the debt in the first place? Looks like oppression to me. The special interests, through the political proceess, make the laws that make the debt creation possible and then they wonder what went wrong. It is often predatory debt. Like that now being created for all the hopeful dreamers in college today, 5% of whom will be tomorrows dispossable citizens who refuse to enslave others on principal.