>As every business owner knows.. there is rarely "the problem" - rather there is a bunch of "a problems."
Corruption in government at all levels is an addressable problem and should be addressed.
If there is a larger problem, so be it.. but deal with what you can.

This is what I cannot understand. The Medicare deficit is going to impact profoundly on most people with "United States" in their UT profile. Yet I perceive no sense of urgency- despite the fact that a deficit of that size grows bigger and meaner every day it is not addressed. The Ponzi scheme is undone because the wealth transfer to the 1% and Gerontocracy leaves the young relatively impoverished and unable to pay their Ponzi dues, especially once they realize that the arrangement is for them to pay orders of magnitude more than previous generations for Medicare and then get nothing. Revolting against your parents and grandparents isn't easy, so perhaps the young will establish their own economy and leave oldsters to shave money off each other and celebrate wealth expressed in currency that's of no interest to workers and can only be used to pay inflated prices for property from other oldsters.