Of Mice And Men

Okay, I guess I'm probably just a dumb old girl, but does it seem to anyone else that the people are really not being consulted or considered in this whole second stimulus package?
The first stimulus didn't do anything but create a platform for the greedy to seek new and higher levels of niggardly greed, I suppose because it might all be gone tomorrow?
And nothing has been done to hold banks accountable after getting $700 billion (!!) to help improve the economy and (of course) holding onto the extra money all the more tightly to secure their existence through a crash. Hmmm. So now we're all supposed to believe that this new "stimulus" is going to cost us all something but somehow lower our taxes? Feed the greedy one more spoonful while the children starve and they will suddenly become selfless public servants. Right?
I'm not the brightest crayon in the box, but is this "benefit" like getting cash back for spending more on my Discover card? California residents are getting IOUs when they file taxes this year, because (whoops!), well, no money for refunds. Is that what it's going to come to next year when we file Federal? It's OUR money they're discussing up there on the hill, and we're not even at the meeting!
In the lovely state of CT we had a $70 million "excess" (because taxes are higher here than any other state, so, whooops, we charged you too much)... and that was three months ago. Now (in just one week) we're collectively on our way to the poorhouse and all systems are broke. I just don't get it, and frankly, I don't believe it.
I think this whole mess is 90% propaganda, but what interests me more is the question, Why? Why were gas prices two years ago permitted to drive us into this collapse? And only when collapse was certain, why did gas prices drop suddenly? Why did all the people who "saw it coming" allow it to continue? Doesn't anyone but me feel manipulated by the very people that constantly told us they had it all under control (so just keep watching reality shows filled with pathetic people that make you feel good about yourself)?
When you hand your finances over to an accountant, you have to trust in a somewhat parasitic relationship where he/she benefits only when you make lots of money. But what if you don't know finances, and because of your ignorance, he/she decides to skim off the top until you wash out, then bails to a nice comfy island somewhere to live on the proceeds? Who knows better than the accountant when the timing is perfect to bail out?
My point is: The people who knew the most had the most to lose by revealing the truth to 235 million Americans. Greed, naked greed, is what happened to America. And greed is no respecter of political affiliation. Your party has as many bad guys as mine does.
What are we to do? We can stop all this if we stop believing in it. The emperor really has no clothes. When we don't "buy" into the lie of credit cards any more and stop using them, when we vote for public servants willing to do the job for nothing, when we suck it up and turn off the television propaganda convincing us that its our patriotic duty to buy more crap at Target, maybe we'll take our country back. Are we mice or are we men?