and it's OK that you and I would disagree on how "a properly run system" would look. What we think or say will have no consequence and nothing can change what has been, but millions, like us, who can agree that something has gone very wrong and we need to have representatives who will urgently look at the big picture of this nation's finances and come to an agreement on where we can improve the outlook. The weight of social program entitlements and idiotic involvement in the affairs of other nations is bringing this country to either default or hypermonitization.
Our form of Central Planning by a Central Bank has not worked. Necessary evils pile up until the system and its taxpayers are overburdened and the whole thing comes tumbling down. Spreading the consequences to those that are not responsible and eschewing one's personal responsibility has become a way of life in this country. Any time the greater good is used as an excuse to take away freedom, you end up with no one left to pay for others' mistakes, to create the wealth with which to bail the excessive risk takers out, no more liferafts, not for them, not for us. There are limits, after which the people expected to shoulder the burden and pay the negative consequences of others' greed and stupidity, will just walk away. The hope for an orderly wind down to the massive debt build up is dimming. As more get desperate, they will become part of the problem instead of the solution until finnally - chaos and anarchy. imho hge