I would note that congress has opted out of many of its responsibilities. They have given the right to wage war to the President (the Congress does do the rubber stamp thing but never declares war) because of the need for rapid response (think ICBM,s).

People are incarcerated in prisons that are run by businesses..I'm sorry, I thought that was what we have a very large Bureau of Prisons for. We have outsourced providing security to our State Department to companies like Blackwater (geee, how's that working for ya)

I don't agree that the banks have, by themselves, run up debt through the FED. Going off the Gold standard made it all much more flexble. For those of you who are x-military, you'll recognize the BOHICA syndrome.
The debt service to our banks is crippling our economy. Maybee Fidel wold venture North and Nationalize them, eliminating the debt with a stroke of the pen. Actually, it is our national pastime of going to war (that is never a war) cotinuously without raising taxes to cover same (that would be sooo unpopular)that has got us well down the road to national insovency. That and the ever increasing burdens hidden under the rubric of social security (too many to mention) that the hidden social agenda funds.
The real truth is that corporate America has outsourced most labor jobs and that has killed the need for middle managers as well. This is sad crap and is why I 'd rather think about motorcycles.