Read, from Capitalism (Murphy's Book) which today again touched on the knowledge problem of social planning.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/366029/november-17-2010/old-people-in-space this video clip touches on the debt/Social Security/Medicare debacle we are facing.
Here are some scare tactics for the children. Yes they did point out the various propaganda tactics to me. It is mostly scary in that it recently happened to Argentina, in a like manner. The day the dollar died: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N8gJSMoOJc
The students recently had questions about this: Obama's entourage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsLIZYeU_cQ
read from Capitalism pg 29 to discuss Bastian's photo about racism etc. There are many accusations that Capitalism is racist, greedy, unfair, and economically inefficient and leads to ill consequences. Pg 29 had a refutation for these accusations. Have your student relate these to you.