Analyst's note:  More and more of our national leaders are rightfully seeing our nation's economy as a major part of our national security.  As we seriously study the basic national security issues associated with these United States, we must understand the entire economic picture of our nation.  This stunning article certainly is sad in the message it gives, but it lays out foundational issues that must be addressed if we are to survive as a free society.

"Misrepresentation, fraud and gaming the system are all heavily incentivized in the U.S. culture and economy, and honesty is punished. This truth is finally being revealed on a grand scale. The coming implosion of the U.S. economy has been richly earned.

Today I am publishing a commentary by an accountant with decades of experience in high-level global consulting firms and Fortune 50 U.S. corporations. What he has observed is unknown to the vast majority of Americans.

I have documented the poisoning of the nation's culture and economy by a "game the system"/exploitation mentality:

The Coming Collapse of the Real Estate Market

Runaway Feedback Loops, Wealth Concentration and Gaming-The-System

Imagining A Middle Class Does Not Create One 

With accountability effectively lost, cheating, lying, misrepresentation, embezzlement and fraud, both petty and monumental, have all been incentivized. Thus the "little people" game the welfare/entitlement system and the Financial Elites game the mortgage market, and everyone gamed whatever piece of the housing bubble they could grab. 

Where does that leave the honest citizenry? At an extreme disadvantage. Lying, sins of omission, misrepresentation and doing the bidding of evil organizations gets you bonuses and career advancement, while refusing to game the system as instructed gets your fired. [....]"