Michigan's new emergency financial managers are being dispatched to poor communities of color, where they're being given total power to attack public institutions.
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/150875

[Compilers note: While the Federal Reserve Bank chokes the money supply to State governments, it doles out Trillions for the gamblers on Wall Street. See Matt Taibbi's article on the "Fed's" secret budget that rivals the US budget http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewives-of-wall-street-look-whos-cashing-in-on-the-bailout-20110411 .  (The "Fed" is not federal at all, but a consortium of PRIVATE banks including JPMorganChase, Citigroup, BoA, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, AIG and others). The ruling elite's plan is in full swing right now: deprive the states the credit they need to fuel their economies, forcing bankruptcy, budget cuts, destruction of public sector unions, and then have a huge fire sale on public assets...privatizing the commons. This will usher in a new system of governance, a corporate feudalism, where corporations own everything including our politicians.] 

An analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics reveals that the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court ruling of January 2010 has profoundly affected the nation's political landscape.  http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/05/citizens-united-decision-profoundly-affects-political-landscape.html