Recently, the new head of the Department of Veterans Affairs told the Senate he needs $17.6 billion dollars over three years to hire enough doctors and nurses to fix the waiting delay problems at VA hospitals.  The president has asked for $3.7 billion to address the crisis of South American children crossing the Mexican border to take refuge in America.  In the same news cycle, 21st Century Fox offered $80 billion to buy Time Warner, Comcast wants to take over Time Warner Cable for $45 billion and AT&T is offering $48.5 billion for DirectTV.  Just about every one of our national problems requires money to solve, yet Republican dogma says cut taxes, reduce spending and block anything and everything the current administration tries to do.  Why don’t we just let corporations make a takeover bid and buy the American government?  Oh, how silly of me, that’s already happened.