Our government went to bed with corporate America during WW II and never left. Eisenhower's departure speech in '61 warned us of letting the M.I.C. take over. He was proven right. I have no idea how to get Congress's hands out of the corporate trough, and vice versa. I know that the Deplorables are being ignored, have been for decades. Our laws and founding documents have been been twisted, adjusted, denied, to the point where the FF would not recognize that which they created. Only Congress can declare war, yet the last time they did so, was Dec 8, 1941. Can someone please explain all the wars we have fought since, all over the globe, feeding our national war machine? Guatemala, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea, Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, Panama, Afghanistan, and too many African countries to name? None of these conflicts are legal, by our own Constitution, yet we fund them to the tune of billions and the blood of our sons and daughters, for decades. Money, and people, that could have been utilized to improve our Pursuit of Happiness, also in the Const., here at home. Instead, we raise money every few years for yet another monument to our Fallen, in Washington. Town squares nationwide are full of such memorials. Ridiculous and un-justified. Our national defense budget dwarfs every nation on earth, yet we send 40m of our own to bed hungry every night. Our national electrical grid dates to the 1930s, our national highway system to ther 1950s, our air traffic control system to the 1970s. Our passenger trains mostly stopped running in the 1960s. Amtrak is a East coast-focused bottomless pit into which taxpayers have zero choice but to pour in billions. They have yet to turn a profit since 1970. "Since its foundation in 1970, the company has never generated a profit. Government subsidies to the tune of $46 billion have kept the company afloat since 1970." What population allows such tax dollar waste? Well, we do. We used to have dozens of airline company choices, retail choices, medical choices. Today we are at the mercy of a tiny handful of each, who do and charge whatever they want, despite the supposed existence of some anti-trust laws. Helluva country to leave to our children and grandchildren. We don't care, either. How long has it been since 60-65% of us voted in a national election? Try 1960-1968. Nothing close, since. I'm not bitter so much as I am disappointed in how we have turned out as a nation. Our 1963 coup d'etat turned this country in an entirely different direction, one we don't seem able nor, more importantly, willing to change. But, this is just me after two cups of morning coffee.