my contribution to conspiracy lore ...........
romney, or his partners at bain, figured it first -america as a nation is bankrupt, and is worth considerably more in vast real estate, oil reserves, farmland etc etc etc. as a target of private equity, america was ripe. romney fell a little short, but
enter t boone pickens and his front man on the golden escalator ..............
pickens is dead, but there has never been a shortage of vultures.
nothing here is new. pinochet's chile is their model but this model has been effectively employed "wherever oligarchs are sold"