For the wealthy, it's all about asset protection. For many of us, it's about fighting the banksters, delaying foreclosure, learning to live without credit, and starting over. Surprisingly, both groups will use the same methods to improve their financial lives.
Is the government trying to turn us all into agents and profilers. See this DHS video. Is this video, paying for a hotel room in cash and having a hinky ID makes you a suspected terrorist. In my mind, it makes you a suspected husband with a mistress.
In the past, and maybe even today, paying for an airline ticket in cash will bring a visit from a DEA agent and maybe get your name sent to the IRS.
Government intrusions into our personal space without probable cause or warrants are so routine that America is feeling more and more like Amerika.