Michigan

If I were to thow a dart at a President, it would be Ronnie Ray-Gun. About the time that Wall Street began preying on municipalities nationwide and race to the bottom tax rebates to corporations to attract business slowly drove many into bankruptcy. Wall Street and the Repubs ripped apart the Rust Belt (sorry for the slur) like Sherman on his march to the sea. End result...undrinkable water, collapsed sewers, failing bridges, underfunded schools, environmental degredation...potholes and garbage.

And this, in a bottom-up view of our society...one part of our society where there is no shortage of funding is criminal justice and law enforcement. The police have their own independent source of funding in America...they prey upon the poor and disenfranchised.