It's not that hard to get laws you want passed. What you have to do is lobby both parties with massive campaign contributions, so no matter which side wins, they owe you one. You have to kick back a bunch of money, that's how this country works. Look what the medical insurance industry got away with. They bribed Obama into giving them Obamacare, that requires everyone to pay for their product, like it or not. So the premiums and deductibles went through the roof, what do you expect? Then, just to pour salt on the wounds, you always have to give legislation that screws everyone over some kind of stupid name, like the "Affordable Healthcare Act", since that is the absolute last thing it's going to be. And that worked out so well for them, FEMA got in on the act, too. They changed all the zones around to include twice as many homes in the "high risk flood zones", and forced them to buy useless insurance from the companies that were willing to kick back huge amounts of the money. But, since FEMA is also the same agency that regulates those particular companies it requires you to buy flood insurance from, they don't really have to pay you for your house if it's destroyed in a flood. Nobody believed me when I told them how that was going to work, until that hurricane Andrew, and the PBS expose on how that worked out, and what the insurance companies got away with. But it ended just like I said it would, they got away with it, and the people who lost their homes never got anything. Welcome to America. And if you live in a populated area, enough so that you have utilities available, I can assure you no matter where you are, you are required by law to pay for them, it's illegal to live "off the grid" if you are close enough to it to be connected. Even if you don't use it, you'll still get a bill, anyway. They'll bulldoze your house down if you don't pay them whatever they want. I used to live off the grid, so I know. And you know what? It cost me only 25% of what the electric company charged to run my own generator. The reason the economy is so bad is that the government is making deals with big business to take all of our money. What the taxes don't get, the utilities companies will.