The districts don't exist but the money was real.  So who ended up pocketing these wads of cash?  Whose freezer is it hiding in?  Why is no one being held accountable?  The Chicago familia said "the fish stinks from the head". 

Cloward and Piven strategized that to collapse the system and make way for the utopia, all one had to do was to sign everybody up on all the possible welfare that was available.  Unfortunately, we had that damnable drive to get people off welfare.  Wrong direction.  The more modern mode is to expand the federal spending under the guise of political correctness until the system likewise collapses.  At some point the tax and spend obligations cause an Atlas Shrugged response by the producers, who scale back and curtail their lifestyle to a maintenance level, coasting along on their savings while the obligations go through the roof. 

Living a middle-class lifestyle is easy if you are wealthy.  Not so easy if you are really middle-class and the only remaining target for the the government to fund the gravy train.  It really is like Ms. Rand predicted except that the producers do not need to find an isolated valley to hide in.  It is enough for them to just scale back to idle through the pending collapse and chaos.  In the meantime, don't be expecting any new entrepreneurs or industries to show up to pull us back into competitive manufacturing. The government collective will be running the show for a while and it will require regular infusions of cash to keep it afloat(ala GM).

Julius Genachowski is now the chairman of the FCC.

His press secretary is Jen Howard, the former spokeswoman for the private organization Free Press.  The Free Press is an organization (self professed) predicated on tenets of Marxist communism and is having a large influence and holding great sway in the development of policy for the Obama administration. Van Jones, the (self professed) communist who was kicked out of the Obama administration after having his leanings made public, is on the board of the Free Press.

Mr. Genachowski, our FCC chairman, has said the following:

"Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself."

In a December '08 op-ed piece regarding the U.S. economic crisis, he said:

"There is no real answer but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles."

The FCC won’t allow Mark Lloyd, Obama’s “FCC Diversity Czar”, to be interviewed.

There is no language in the Constitution implying that government licensees abdicate their First Amendment rights. The Federal Communications Commission Chairman now is endorsing reduced license terms and increased "public interest obligations" for broadcasters. Recently  the government started in to regulate advertising with bloggers.  Did you know that bloggers could take any kind of advertising without having to meet government approval? 

 The next step is "net neutrality".  The goal is to regulate the entire Internet.  You will no longer be able to select just for yourself what you see. The government will do some of the choosing for you whether you like it or not.  Orwell presaged this when he wrote of "newspeak" where the government eliminated words so that people could not conceptualize ideas that the government decided were undesirable.  How different will it be if websites are forced to present ideas that the government finds acceptable, or if popular sites are suddenly burdened with the extra tax cost to subsidize alternative sites that promote more acceptable ideas but that aren't getting enough viewing in the opinion of the government.  

How can any press be free if its taxed and mandated by the government? 

Unfortunately, this is not the system that the Founders envisioned and designed.  We were to have a House and a Senate and the Senate was to be responsible to the States.  The 17th amendment, well meant and in response to partial gridlock, created two Houses with different names.  The way our system now functions, we end up with a system that has no accountability.  The corruption of power is in that absence. 

Our Congress has a greater than 98% odds of being reelected.  This in a country where the approval rating for Congress hovers in the teens and where is it is universally evident that our country is in trouble because of the direction that Congress has taken us.  In the USSR, before it's collapse, a country where the people had little voice in the process and the communist party decided who was to be in office, a fait accompli, the Politburo members had only a 96% chance of being reelected.

 Despite the humanistic desire to personalize blame, no president can take our country in a direction that Congress does not allow it to go.  Our current debacle can be attributed to messing with the original design. Most of our current problems are a result of either the federal government doing things that are unconstitutional, or things that may have been interpreted as being constitutional but that our Founders had recommended against. 

Washington warned against the natural human tendency to put faith in parties: "The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty." This distraction keeps us from addressing the current problems.