What do you get?

What do you get when....

• you pay your state legislators less than a McDonalds cashier?
• when 9 our of 10 elections are won by the candidate with the most money?
• when you elect people who say government can't do anything right and that low taxes should be the goal?
• when "electable" rather than "capable" is the standard for recruiting candidates?
• when voters care more about the personal lives and dramas of their politicians rather than their skill sets?
• when over 50% of the seats for your General Assembly go uncontested?
• when you know more nonvoters than voters; and the angriest voters are the least informed?
• when most voters get their "news" from radio and tv entertainers?

Only a fool would be shocked that our state government is broken--but then again, man is not a rational animal is he?

Posted via email from Jim Nichols