I agree. One comes to the conclusion that politicians are the least qualified to be leaders. *sigh*
“These men,(in government)in point of fact, are seldom if ever moved by anything rationally describable as public spirit; there is actually no more public spirit among them than among so many burglars or street-walkers. Their purpose, first, last and all the time, is to promote their private advantage, and to that end, and that end alone, they exercise all the vast powers that are in their hands....” ~ H.L. Mencken
...and adding insult to injury, they have the sheer audacity to ask us for huge amounts of money to get them their jobs, and then we pay their salaries