you put that well. I was thinking of commenting something like this but did not have the corrupt oligarchy phrase in my head which exactly sums it up.

yeah and everything kinda crappy. Like just good enough to function but quality totally gone. Construction to. A condo building burned down near me over four years ago with the structure intact but the units and roof being totaly losses. Its still surrounded by construction fencing. Looks pretty much done on the outside but think it looks like studs still through the windows. Insurance fighting is supposed to be to blame but the same insurance will only pay people for a temp place to live for a year. Then anyone who owned one of the places has to pay taxes and assesments this whole time. A schoolbus went into our drive (its not supposed to, it goes into the larger drive of the complex across the street. Ours is to small) and hit a soil retaining wall and its sitting all messed up while the insurance companies drag their feet. We had a pool fall apart while trying to have it rehabbed and it should have been done last year but did get messed up by permits and inspections but all that was cleared up by the winter and almost nothings been done this year. What im trying to say is the us used to be able to build things and get things done. Its like that building in new york. Why is all this so messed up. Because construction workers, teachers, cops, and firefighters don't all make about the same money anymore and that money for some are not enough to have a "typical" american houseold with a house and some kids and doing decently on one income.