Republican or Democrat. Every single system has been abused to milk the payees and the payers. Somebody somewhere was making money off the ledger sheets. Lots of it. The biggest taxpayer boondoggle has been the Department of Defense who can't account for about a trilion dollars the past two or three decades. Gone into the black budget hole. The Bernie Madoff of all warfares.

Because inventing tools for wars and creating conflicts to test those tools is the primary reason our economy is now in collapse. We've been lucky not to blow ourselves up along the way. Opening our borders, banks extending credit to the masses, raising credit limits and interest rates for that fast cash (then calling in their loans), and fancy footwork mortgages to prop up the investors....everything adds up to the crash. This past year has been the largest transfer of wealth I have seen in my lifetime.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. There's very little middle class these days.