BS. The political system is well-lubricated and running along just fine under the single-party crony-capitalist model that has taken over the 6 Million dead-soul megalopolis called Washington DC which lives in a close symbiotic relationship with that even bigger parasite, New York city.
It hums along just fine doing the bidding of those who control it. This isn't an argument about an economy at all. It is only an argument about which pigs get all four trotters in the trough.
What everyone needs to wake up to is that while this system always existed, it became hog fat through the actions of GWB who abandoned economic caution and told them all they could loot the public temples so long as he could go to war in Iraq. DHS is just the tip of the iceberg. All those godawful high-rises in the Virginia quadrant of 495 are a monument to the Bush Cheney neocon doctrine that has destroyed this country.
No different that the senior branch of the Bush family, the House of Saud.