Unbridled capitalism
Unemployment is high, income equality is increasing, tax rates are the lowest they’ve been in decades, and US debt is about $16 trillion dollars.
The debt is due to unfunded disastrous wars, bailouts for billionaires, the Reagan and Bush tax cuts for the rich, corruption, the subprime crash, and high cost medical care resulting from inefficient private insurance and out-of-control drug costs.
But Repugs and corporate Dems want more tax cuts for the rich, they want to hand your Social Security funds to Wall Street, and they want to continue the reckless deregulation of Wall Street that caused the subprime crash.