This article just about says it all...

The meltdown seems to be a foregone conclusion. The $64,000 question is whether the people of America will have the intelligence, the guts and the courage to stand up and rebuild America, or whether they will wither under the pressure and allow the oligarchs to obliterate and eradicate the concept of America and what it used to stand for.

Each person will be faced with this question. I guess it could be characterized as 'The Moment of Truth'. It is talked about in Marine bootcamp. It is the moment when the soldier comes eye-to-eye with the enemy. Will he aim true and shoot his weapon to send the enemy to meet his maker; or will he waffle, cower, run and hide, or hesitate and allow the enemy to kill him and/or win the encounter? In like manner, are we going to rise to the occasion and stand up for freedom, or will we continue to bask in the ignorance of irrelevant television programming and other mindless diversions from reality while America burns?

Because of complacency, mental and physical laziness, denial of personal responsibility, apathy, intellectual neglect and a large host of other reasons, now every American will be faced with an oncoming onslaught of life-or-death decisions. And remember that no decision IS a decision! I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this is a result of the choices that we have made to give up our own power to control our destiny to others. Now these choices are 'coming home to roost', and we're learning (the hard way) that others never have our best interests as their supreme priority. Why do you think that they call government organizations "agencies"? Because they are agents (of a foreign power), and are not working for our benefit, but for the benefit of the people they are agents for!

The bottom line is that YOU are going to have to become responsible IF you want to stay free and have the possibility to be prosperous. The time is now. This is the "Moment of Truth". You and your children's future depend on your choice.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11118