Our leaders hang out with billionaires and fly over the towns and cities gutted by economic decisions made in secret meetings. We peons are told what is good for us, and that we are too dumb or naive to understand that massive pay cuts and job losses for 99.9% of the population are necessary in these days of globalization . The wealth disparity and total disconnect between the executive/ruling class and the rest of society is reminiscent of the last days of royalty in France.