Priorities!

With all the war, tax cuts, and whatnot, the United States appears to have priced itself out of the whole democracy thing. NPR reports that elections officials across the country are struggling to cope with shrinking budgets. The head of South Carolina's Election Commission, which is current dealing with a budget sixty percent smaller than it had in 2000, told NPR:

Basically, we're down to a critical level — sort of a bare-bones level — where if we saw any more cuts I think it would have a significant impact on our ability to provide services to counties

In this case, "services" means access to democracy.

In any case, I'm toooootally sure that it's a huge accident that Americans are finding themselves priced out of participation in corporations' expensive government.