“Take a good cause, like providing low cost housing; persuade government to kick in money to subsidize it and turn the whole thing into a racket. Repeat as necessary.”

Translation: “Hi. We’re from the government and we’re here to help.” The astounding things that never gets asked is: Help whom and to what? Answers: Themselves and to your money. As long as government functionaries (pols, judges and their associated bureaucrats) are not responsible for what happens on their watch, we (as in all of us who are not of one of the governments’ many branches) are subject to their increasing benign neglect.