We live in a kleptocracy

Les Payne of Newsday -- previewing the Gulf Coast reconstruction profiteering Karl Rove will oversee unless he winds up prison -- crunches some numbers:

President Bush's emptying of the national purse has been nothing short of breathtaking.
Inheriting a national surplus of $232 billion from the Clinton administration in 2000, Bush has run up an extraordinary deficit of some $7.95 trillion. Were this debt spread equally to every man, woman and child citizen of the U.S., each of us would owe $26,797.
Does this bother the president? Not in the least. Bush's plan for rebuilding the gulf states was cavalierly revealed to the American people Thursday night without actually mentioning the cost.

By the time these corrupt bastards are done looting the Treasury, it will take a generation to get the country fiscally fit again. Prison's a good place for them.