It sure isn’t the corrupt politicians’ fault! LOL! Yeah, right.
I worked for a city where our local, self professed Reagan conservatives nearly bankrupted the city twice! Their excuse was that staff was incompetent and they never got accurate financial statements, so it was their fault that they approved spending because the numbers were wrong, even though they had been directly told time after time what would be the consequences.
As u said this happened twice. They were all thrown out if office in 2006 but they fooled the public again promising they learned from their mistakes and got reelected in 2009! And as soon as they were sworn in they started to request more spending as they were not part of the recently adopted budget process.