I'll tell you what it is...MASSIVE NEGLIGENCE!
As long as we keep throwing the American people sports & entertainment, and new cool products to buy, and new fancy cars, and flashy commercials they will be blinded while the politicians fill their fat pockets and spend the American people's money on useless crap! Bridge to Nowhere!

$220 million dollars to connect an island where 50 people live!
$220 million. Let's think about that. Where else could that money be used? Hm-mmmmm....
Reports indicate the poverty level is rising in America too. Oh-hhh...but no-oooo...Iraq has to come first. There's a reason this is all happening. Now we are "over there" to protect the oill from the Taliban and the terrorists. Oh, I thought it was becuase Saddam had WMDs??? Oh...or maybe we can just say, we're over there to spread freedom. "Our version" of it. Myabe Freedom to people in the middle east is what they already had? Maybe their version of freedom is waking up every morning, walking freely through the streets, setting up their morning market and selling hand-made necklaces? Hmmmmmm...still not free enough....They need American-type freedom stuff...like baseball teams, multi-cinema complexes, drive-thru Mcburgers, Huge plazas with nail salons and tanning parlors, mega Walmarts....