How corrupt?
Read about it here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/our_elective_despotism.html
Examples of the corrupt status quo:
- More than 50 percent of the members of the U.S. Congress are millionaires.
- The median wealth of a U.S. Senator in 2009 was 2.38 million dollars.
- Insider trading is legal for members of the U.S. Congress -- and they refuse to pass a law that would change that.
- The percentage of millionaires in Congress is more than 50 times higher than the percentage of millionaires in the general population.
Regarding the crisis of our current national debt, put simply, unconstrained spending by the government is the product of unconstrained corruption in the government.