It's not about people, LH. It's about systems that are dysfunctional. As long as politics
as usual remain without change in US or Canada, it doesn't really matter who is around
to blame. Bush, Harper, Obama....................

1. Our US Senate and Congress are broken. Lobbyists, greed, ideologies and Wall Street
have contributed to their demise.

2. When the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor, the system is broken.

3. Warring occupations are robbing the taxpayer and the people.

The people you mention are really irrelevant until the underlying causes for their
behavior are repaired.