WRONG! The shame is that many people seem to think that as individuals they deserve to have money from other people's pockets without earning it. Because of that mentality, the politicians can spend money to buy votes. Because people are selfish as fuck, short sighted and have poor financial education and understanding of how their decisions affect others and themselves AND because they always assume that "do unto others" means it will never be done unto them, they vote for these fucks without any thought to what will happen next month. For example, the unions are typically huge Democrat supporters, well, they voted for Biden in droves and BAM, pipeline closed, factories going back overseas and they are out jobs. But hey, anyone but Trump, always blue no matter who and so on. They got what they paid for and their leadership got paid off in the deal. Republicans are only somewhat better about this, the things they buy votes for often have tangible assets like planes, tanks and bridges.
War is coming, it won't be pretty.