The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

How many bodies has the state even assigned to gather evidence for these difficult cases? How much money has it been willing to spend for that kind of justice? It never put together a task force to concentrate on this corruption, never had a coordinated strategy. In fact, it barely even studied the problem. Fun fact: When the economy crashed in 2008, the federal government formed an investigatory group to look into the causes. That Financial Crisis Inquiry Committee was given a budget of $9.8 million. Committee chairman Phil Angelides acidly noted that this was “roughly one-seventh of the budget of Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.” Meanwhile, that same year the federal drug enforcement budget leaped from $13.275 billion to $15.278 billion. That meant that just the increase in the national drug enforcement budget for the year of the biggest financial crisis since the Depression was roughly two hundred times the size of the budget for the sole executive branch effort at formally investigating the causes of financial corruption.