Re-Personalizing

Many have quipped that the most dangerous place in the world is between a politician and your wallet. Seemingly every day, we hear about how there’s not enough money to pay for all the things politicians want to do for us, so they need more. They quickly call anyone who objects to being further fleeced “greedy,” especially if the objectors have had financial success in their lives.

They get away with this because voters keep putting people who think this way in office. Yes, we have ourselves to blame for the fact that our representatives care far more about squeezing more money out of the productive economy than they do in managing what they already take more efficiently.

One might think that, with near-daily revelations of fraud, waste, and abuse on the government side, they’d try to root it out and more efficiently redeploy those funds.

Oh, no.