[Daradon]

CBC just ran a documentary on this exact subject. The Newberg Sting. Check it out.

Again, a lot of it goes right back to departments not wanting their budgets cut. Unfortunately, if they succeed in their mission, which is supposed to be the whole point to begin with, eventually they aren't needed anymore. They know this. So they gotta prove that they are needed.

Culture of fear. Over and over again in America. Just like the failed war on drugs.

The US is cutting social services to the bone, filling up their jails with people that really shouldn't be there (which also costs a lot of money by the way) just to keep their bloated espionage, anti-terrorism, CIA and FBI budgets high. And making everyone believe that those services, and not the multitudes of others, that really keep a nation safe and prosperous, are the ones that are needed.

You wanna know why the US is broke? It's not because of the 'nanny state' or people who are 'lazy'. It's not because of bloated social programs. It's not because they don't manufacture anymore, or because the economy is bad. Hell, it's not even because of corrupt bankers and manipulated markets.

It's because they throw dollars beyond reason to spying on the world, trying to police it, (which rarely works by the way) and filling their prison populations when they have no real need to.

You could probably cut a lot of those budgets right in half. That's where the real government waste is. Sure they need to fix the inter-government waste, and yeah, they really need better regulations on Wall Street. It sure would help if they did ramp up their manufacturing. But the number one reason they are broke is that they continue to increase military, espionage, and domestic enforcement spending, at a time when everything else is getting a trim. They are fixing the symptoms and not the problems, and in fact, creating a lot of the problems along the way in doing so.