Folks, I see a lot of government bashing going in here, and I just want to ask a couple of questions.

Out of the folks that you have met in your life, how many would you say, as a percentage of the population, are good, hard working honest folks?

Given that the government has 10's of thousands of people working for it, is it reasonable to expect that the percentage of honest, hard working folks in it is somewhere close to what you see in normal life?

If that is the case, is it reasonable to expect that they are, on average, trying to do the best job they know how, with what they've got?

And if, we think that they are going stark raving mad, is it possible that, in at least some cases, maybe we don't know all the information yet, and maybe they are behaving rationally on the fact set that is front of them?

Just asking.


I'm not saying that the folks working for the state are the sharpest knives in the drawer. If they were, they'd probably be pulling down six figures working in industry somewhere. But I think a lot of them, most of the ones I've met over my life, are trying to do right, as they know it and see it.

Like most of the rest of us.

It's Christmas. Let's think good thoughts about each other, if only for a while.

Three fish to the boat today (have to make this sort of a fishing post).