Morris Dovey wrote:
Frank Boettcher wrote:

The root cause in this instance is
those politicians who set the system up and created the environment.

Actually, I think it would be one individual who is usually though of as
being other than a politician - the then Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board, Alan Greenspan, who redirected some 70 trillion dollars in world
wide investment funds away from Treasury Bonds.

If true, he prevented $70 trillion from being added to the national debt!