Yabbut...

I take the Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen attitude: A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it is real money!

We actually had honorable politicians mores-so-than-not back in the day. Sure, they still screwed by the numbers and stole what they could - but they also took their jobs fairly seriously. And it was DDE that created the term "Military Industrial Complex", and as a warning, not a description.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Simon Cameron
US financier & politician (1799 - 1889)

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park PA