Rhetoric wins the day over reality. Here are two facts I stumbled upon recently:
And we trust our legislators to design and manage a health care system? Administer housing programs? Run our schools? Defend us? Football coaches are fired when they have one .500 season. CEOs are canned when stock prices fall. Our elected officials are not even close to having a .500 season. Looks more like a .100 season, and that is being optimistic. What will it take for them to be accountable? And for people to get rid of their romantic involvement with the idea of politics and politicians?