Reply #52: Yet we keep hiring them into positions as government advisors

[jtuck004]

and managers of the public trust, even advising presidents. Then they go back to the sector and make even more money.

This has gone on through several administrations, so much so it's become the norm. One has to wonder why the American people don't see it as a problem. Stories about the revolving door between the White House/other government offices and Goldman Sachs, and resources like Griftopia, It Takes a Pillage, Econned, Broke, USA, "Inside Job" make the stories clear.

It should concern us all greatly that 1 in 7 are unemployed, underemployed, or discouraged - that is, not productive. It really should motivate us to demand a jobs program, because waiting on this to fix itself is a slow death for at least 20 years. Yet neither of those things seems to supplant the love of Charlie Sheen news.

Are their civics and economics just too divorced from their daily life?