[Superman]

You know, I'm sorry to hear about your unfortunate experiences with that nonprofit, Island. My experiences in government were very different. The people I dealt with were very hard-working and very honest. But they were often ineffective because their offices were tragically, and deliberately, underfunded. This nonprofit in your past was not a public agency. Yet they received grants. Perhaps those grants needed to be tracked more effectively, and audited for performance. But then, that would mean hiring a couple of auditors, total cost of $120k, to ensure that several million dollars of public funds are not wasted. Make sense? Sure it does, to you and me. But to a politician? Heck no! A politician thinks:

"That's 'gubmint spending' and if I get caught supporting it, I'll be defeated in the next election by very angry conservatives. So, the waste must stay. And besides, it makes government operate poorly, and I campaign on a platform of hating government, so this is just more fuel to use in scaring people and making them angry enough to vote for me."

And those of you who think everyone has an outside pony on the Capitalism Carousel, and can reach the brass ring, you're not paying attention. There are horses whose riders cannot reach the ring dispenser. When a liberal talks about freedom, this is party what he's thinking. When a conservative talks about freedom, he's thinking of how we can slam the door in these peoples' faces. After all, we need low wage workers, and we need a LOT of them. I understand what Anna was saying. But some of you do not. For some of you, life is simple. It's as simple as a conservative radio talk show.