"What a clever trap your Ruling Class set for us," he went on. "First the atomic bomb. Now this."
"Trap?" I echoed wonderingly.
"They looted your public and corporate treasuries, and turned your industries over to nincompoops," he said. "They had your Government borrow so heavily from us that we had no choice but to send over an Army of Occupation in business suits. Never before has the Ruling Class of a country found a way to stick other countries with all the responsibilities their wealth might imply, and still remain rich beyond the dreams of avarice! No wonder they thought the comatose Ronald Reagan was a great President!"
~ Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus (copyright 1990)
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