Fitts argues that when the 1995 push by financial leaders to put America on a fiscally sound footing collapsed into the three-week government shutdown, the establishment “gave up on the country” — as the president of the nation’s largest pension fund told her — and launched a financial coup, moving money out starting that fall, which became the $21 trillion in missing federal money compounded by $29 trillion in bailouts. She claims a conscious decision was made to balance the budget by lowering life expectancy instead: approving OxyContin and opening the pill mills, enabling HUD-linked predatory lending, building private prisons, and flooding neighborhoods with narcotics, first hitting lower-income groups and then — as she says she predicted to Skidmore in 2018, before COVID in 2020 — the middle and upper-middle classes. She contends the oligarchs believe they’ll live radically long lives (citing Jared Kushner’s live-forever comment and Sean Parker’s claim he’ll reach 145), see robotics and automation as making most people unnecessary and hard to manage, and would rather build a control grid, risk global war, or kill many people to protect the dollar system than compete in a meritocracy — because “when people in their situation lose, they get killed.”
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The 1995 turning point and the financial coup: After the failed budget deal and the three-week Clinton-era shutdown, Fitts says leadership abandoned fiscal responsibility, began moving money out of the country, and shifted from bankers merely running monetary policy to effectively running fiscal policy — the origin of the $21 trillion in missing money plus $29 trillion in bailouts.
Balancing the budget by lowering life expectancy: She claims two post-1995 decisions — approving OxyContin/pill mills and unleashing predatory lending, private prisons, and drug trafficking — were designed to shrink unfunded pension and retirement obligations by shortening lives, steadily reducing life expectancy in lower-income groups first.
The 2018 warning and COVID: Fitts recounts telling Mark Skidmore in Bolivar, Tennessee in 2018 that ignoring the missing money meant “radical steps of lowering life expectancy” were coming for the middle class — and says the 2020 COVID response delivered exactly that, this time hitting middle and upper-middle income groups.
Why the oligarchs want fewer people: With Kushner and Sean Parker expecting extreme longevity, and robotics and automation replacing labor, she argues the leadership class sees large populations as environmentally costly, unnecessary, and hard to manage — hence the control grid, and a genuine preference for much lower population.
War, the dollar system, and the refusal of meritocracy: She offers two theories for courting global war — some actors actively want Armageddon, while others will “kill many, many people” to prevent a disorderly dollar-system unraveling — and stresses that tyranny is enormously wasteful: honest reform would unleash explosive wealth creation but produce a meritocracy the current elite would lose, citing an Iran-Contra-era group that discussed detonating a suitcase nuke in Chicago as a distraction, since a goal of war is controlling the domestic population.
