Have the rich siphoned off the wealth and resources of the US to the point of no return, aided by the media they own as well as the politicians they own or are?
Leveraged buyout I think is the term that sort of fits what seems to be going on. No one is investing in building up the country. They just extract all the wealth and hoard it. You look at china and they seem to be living like the Jetsons, while we live like the flitstones, with the infrastructure crumbing around us.
Money for war and ballrooms. No money for rural hospitals, bridges, community centers. No money for medicaid or food stamps. Minimum wage at $7.25 when it would take 3 times that to barely survive.
We Americans have let ourselves be conned by these people. We fight ourselves while they laugh to the bank in the Cayman islands.