An unpublished federal report has concluded the US reconstruction effort in Iraq has been a $100 billion failure.
Bush blew $100 Billion reconstructing Iraq…
But time and again, the issue is, we’ve had a government which has been really shrunk and hollowed out in terms of its ability to oversee and regulate private businesses, private corporations and what it is they’re doing.
And that is the function of government, is to make sure that everybody plays fair. They’re referees.
And if there’s not enough referees around, the game gets ugly.