Reasons

I feel like the economic strain could be highlighted as:

lack of integrity:
- governmental leader's lack of desire to get out of debt
- - who else can go into hysterical debt over nonessentials?

greed:
- government intervention in the industries that are now having problems
- - we have COUNTLESS and COMPLICATED taxes that are nearly impossible to count and be aware of. Without knowing WHAT exact PERCENT we pay, how can we clearly argue that it is 'too much'. With 99.99% (if not 100%) of Americans not knowing what 'total percent' they pay in taxes, how can we say '55%' is too much.
- - - regardless of whether everyone in Congress (who votes a bill in) reads a bill, most americans are definately not reading the legal verbage of the taxes and laws that our government has accumulated.

lack of intelligence:
- extra high taxation on those that are doing well and in a position to create jobs
- - while illegal aliens pay no taxes and take advantage of those that do pay taxes

encourage lack of intelligence in others:
- special financial assistance for select groups that do poorly or that have the politician's ear/pocketbook