Where Has All the Money Gone?

In a country as rich as ours squandering the amount of money it takes to impoverish the middle class requires a really bottomless pit--ideally one that is on fire and so acting as an incinerator and the Republican incinerator is military spending. Spending the money wastefully isn't enough. 

No hole is big enough and the hardware would begin to accumulate and people would begin to notice and ask if all that stuff is necessary, so heedless wars, interventionism and adventurism are the solutions, thereby destroying the hardware. Young, mostly lower-class Americans are also killed.