What is your purpose for dredging this up again?Remember that we're not MVPs and therefore have absolutely no idea what behind-the-scenes activities may have been conducted by our leaders on matters that concern us. So we bumble along as best we can.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
