STEALING. Any professional thief will tell you: If you're going to steal, steal big. There's evidence to suggest that the bigger the theft, the less the consequences. A good example is our government's debt of over 30 trillion dollars. The only people who will be punished for that historic financial fiasco will be the American people and not the 30, 40, or 50 year career politicians that created it. Today when groups of people loot a store, professional thieves say that's small potatoes. Some retail stores won't arrest you if you steal less than a couple hundred dollars. And why not? Our Consumerist Economy demands you get more.