I agree with a large part of your post. Dems spend too much on bullshit, Repubs want to protect the rich. Somethings got to give.

What I see is a failure of the party system that has enabled all of these fuckers to get rich at our (US taxpayer) expense with no repercussions. Both of the existing orders, ie Dems & Repubs, have written themselves a ticket to paradise at the expense of the rest of us. The regular folks who now have no voice because we don't have the juice to drive the debate.

Know why? Because each party has expertly manipulated people like you and I to piss all over each other in the name of their ideal while we have lost sight of our own similarities. I don't think you make over $250,000 a year, or whatever. You're probably in the same bracket as red and I, or at least close. We're really not affected by the crap each side is pitching, but they have turned us into the position of fighting one another--or at least being antagonistic to one another. How does that help us--the regular joes get ahead? It doesn't. We are both being fed to the Machine. That's why I support Occupy--just as a way of pointing out that people who are outside of the game are being crapped on and played by the rich.

You and I are being manipulated by both sides of the "political" class. We have more in common than any of the motherfuckers in DC or on Wall Street. I won't defend either side or any of them--I just know we are not getting a fair shake here.

Of course--if you're some rich motherfucker slumming in here--all bets are off! Lol!

Peace bro~