The World We Live In

I haven't seen it put much better than this post to "Café Hayek" by Don Boudraux: "The People order, spur, nudge, encourage, politicians to go out and play with the market. The Politicians do. They fiddle, tweak, castrate, pick wings off, etc….and eventually things go terribly wrong. A catastrophe ensues. The People get very angry. They shout and tell the Politicians to fix the mess. "It's your job to fix this!". The Politicians in turn, like three-year olds charged to put grandmas set of crystal glasses back into the cupboard, go busily about their business, hauling over-sized delicate objects above their heads, struggling to hang on to several heavy and mis-shaped precious items. This is the world we live in." They let the politicians screw everything up, then insist the politicians "fix" what THEY'VE screwed up. Mostly because they don't know any better, never having paid attention until just before an election. (Café Hayek)