"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."
First written in 2012. Not much has happened to change my opinion. American humorist Will Rogers didn't have much nice to say about politicians back at the start of the 20th Century and nothing happening today would probably change his mind. Skepticism about politicians isn't new. Before Rogers, Mark Twain was known to take verbal shots at our elected leaders. " In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing, " Twain wrote, and it sounds way too apropos of today's scene. With that bit of perspective in mind, I have to call out some of most outrageous statements being vocalized in our current electoral frenzy. One of the differences between the past and the present is that a liar i
