The Hunger Games and the United States

The Hunger Games is a series that I enjoy and personally do not think that the author was trying to make a specific correlation to the United States. I can see where some might get some of these ideas and I will explain why some think so.

One reason that a relationship between the Hunger Games and the U.S. is the aspect of the Capitol. In the Hunger Games the Capitol is the top 1% who have massive amounts of wealth mostly coming from poorer people in the other districts. Some could take this and put it into modern society and relate the U.S. to the Capitol. The United States has a lot of wealth and power. With this wealth and power the U.S. benefits from buying from poorer countries that have workers being paid cents on the dollar. Not to mention that, but the

U.S. even treats some countries such as Ghana as a garbage can.
Another correlation is the fact that the U.S. government is becoming a form of who is the highest bidder and not necessarily who is best for our country. In the 2012 election over 5.8 billion dollars was spent on campaigning, and since 1998 over 8 billion dollars was spent by lobbyists. It's almost to the point (if it isn't already) that if you have the money you can make sure what you want to happen will happen.

There are more analogies people can make. These are the 2 most prevalent I have found by search of the web and using more sources to find numbers that could support these inferences.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-11/who-spends-most-dollars-lobbying-washington-dc
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2012/10/2012-election-spending-will-reach-6.htmlhttp://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/the_unseen_message_of_the_hunger_games.html
http://tsl.pomona.edu/articles/2012/4/6/lifeandstyle/2755-the-hunger-games-provides-commentary-on-american-society
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=8215714