I am pretty sure that fixing the country never was priority. The more poor people there are the more in control of them the government can be. Especially with stuff like obama care.
People that are dependent are less prone to be a threat to the country. And with all the warfare crap and creating a threat outside of the own country less people will have a problem with a police state etc.
So the way I see it everything is according to plan.
And the fact that the US political system is less a political system and more a WWE show (behind the scenes they are all 1 big team and in public they hate each other) doesnt help.
Thats why the "important stuff" will not get fixed just small mistakes the former government made on purpose get fixed so the population believes that the new government is better than the last one (and to hide the fact that both actually have the same goal)
