The amount of govt. freebies has accelerated to the point where it now touches every facet of our lives and we (pejorative) continue to vote for the people who promise us yet more.
It's as simple as that.
Interesting read. Members of the SSCI committee should remember what happened to Saruman.
The senate was never meant by our founding fathers to be a career.. term limits would have been a beautiful thing. Eventually Leahy, Feinstein, Pelosi et al will meet their maker..and they won’t be heading to the grey havens with Gandalf.
Snowden tried to warn us about the intelligence community...