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At the heart of the present US-problems and –due to the still extraordinarily eminent position of the United States in world politics- also of the rest of the world are the destructive neoliberal forces, which consist both of the neoliberal rich themselves and their supporters in academia and business. According to the destructive neoliberal creed of these people, taxes shall be low and the state and national budget deficits shall be reduced by cutting back government investments in social security and infrastructure. Investment in the armed forces on the contrary shall remain high. After all, if necessary or desirable, there must be a strong army in order to conquer the Persian oil fields or other objects considered desirable by neoliberal greediness. Furthermore, these kind of people give top priority to the economy over everything else. No matter, how much the world climate is going to deteriorate, or how many lives hurrican Katharina is going to claim, the US-American economic growth rate is always dearest to their hearts. Moreover, not few within this most problematical section of US-American society combine this economic greediness also with a socially destructive conduct of their private life. “Socially allowing” is the magic word they are using in this context, which means nothing else, that at the economic level they want as much money as possible, while at the private level a few adulterous sex orgies and a liberal attitude to same sex marriage are not excessively repugnant to their minds. These are the kind of people, who are going to destroy the social and economic fundaments of US-American society, thereby doing great damage to the rest of the world, too. The problems likely to be created by these dangerous breed of people shall therefore be discussed in greater detail in the following.