“...all the small things that have stakeholders who think their small thing is no big deal.”
It’s death by a thousand (billion) cuts. One of these days the country’s gonna hit that hard wall, and I hate to say it...there will be no real effort to stop it because the politicians will be too busy blaming the “other” side. Any effort at reform will just lead to more pork barrel. I think we are past the point of financial redemption.
I think when that happens those people are going to abscond with wealth and disappear somewhere.
Oh well. What are ya gonna do?