re: And yet it works
Let's hope it keeps working. The entire system is moving in only one direction: toward state centralization and control, and I have not seen good things happen in nations run this way. The elasticity of our productivity isn't infinite.
Any objective examination of economic conditions and social conditions in European nations, which are apparently run the way the American left wishes America was run, shows that maybe limitless expansion of the State is not the best way to do everything. Examination of Marxist nations seems to show that there is a tipping point somewhere.