The idea has been to use American innovation, ingenuity and productivity, skim off HUGE sums of wealth, then destroy America as globalism takes effect.
If Americans were as vigilant and were awakened fully to what is going on as they used to be and could comprehend how it happened, there'd be a tarred, feathered and dead banker, lawyer, corporate officer and "elected official" swinging from nearly every light pole in America.
"...once more, after the usual period of years, the torrents of heaven sweep down like a pestilence leaving only the rude and unlettered among you."
~Plato's Timaeus