It is sprinkled with references to America's "growing disenfranchised class, decaying inner cities and a bankrupt educational system."

At the same time, those bankrupt systems routinely leave people in darkness and factories idle during rampant power failures, retarding economic growth.

Cosmetic changes are not enough to resurrect a bankrupt system.

The left fell in love with revolution - not civil war but some form of convulsive relief from a bankrupt political system.

These assessments of a bankrupt system support a long-range plan made public last week.

Argentina is beset by a 20 percent unemployment rate, growing poverty and a bankrupt financial system.

Mr. Karzai called restoring order to the country's chaotic and bankrupt economic system "as important as security."

On the contrary, consumerism is depicted as the rightful heir to a corrupt and morally bankrupt system.

A recession would display some of the flaws in a bankrupt system and, hopefully, enervate change.

But it won't come through tinkering with a bankrupt system.