It’s been planned for a long time to turn the United States into a de-industiralized welfare state. This is the goal of the One World Government type people.
Here’s a quote from 1962. He’s off by many years, but it’s still interesting:
“The image of the world in 1987 as traced in my imagination: the Cold War will be a thing of the past. Internal pressure of the constantly growing intelligentsia in Russia for more freedom and the pressure of the masses for raising their living standards may lead to a gradual democratization of the Soviet Union. On the other hand, the increasing influence of the workers and farmers, and rising political importance of men of science, may transform the United States into a welfare state with a planned economy. Western and Eastern Europe will become a federation of autonomous states having a Socialist and democratic regime.
- Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel, invited in Jan. 16, 1962 to predict what the world would be like in 25 years, wrote in LOOK magazine