Ah! I guess I've thought that for so long it just seem obvious to me. This is one huge issue with large democracies. Large meaning nation wide rules that cross culture, economic, and geographic areas. You see it all the time in the US when people from one region of the US can't believe people in another region just had some new law passed. Or a law repealed.

Before I learned to start ignoring politicians I used to get pissed off when some politician would say they care about my kids. I would think in my head. So you do huh? Well why don't you pitch in with some of that money I'm forced to send you every year. Where are you when they are sick?

These are lies we hear and we don't recognize them as lies. I wrote about lies like this yesterday. Its not nice to think the things I am thinking. It might not be nice but it is true. Talk is cheap. Politicians have very little skin in the game. As the years have passed I've come to believe that the reputational starting place for politicians should be the same as a tobacco company exec. They should be suspect from the start. I certainly do not think they are public servants or they are working for me. Two more lies.