> Most political policies don't have tangible win/lose results. No -- but occasionally politicians will state a particular tangible, directly measureable resul

> Most political policies don't have tangible win/lose results. No -- but occasionally politicians will state a particular tangible, directly measureable result they're expecting a policy to produce (either pro or con). They seem to be wrong as often as they're right, across the board. Ideally, we'd have a policy suggestion, true experts would give us a clear understanding of the tradeoffs involved and the actual effects of the policy, and we could evaluate them and make sensible decisions. What we actually get are policy suggestions, statements from both sides' hand-picked "experts" declaring fictional effects of the policy, we vote for whatever sounds the best to us, and half the time the end result is totally different from what we thought we were voting for. And pretty much all the time, both sides cherry-pick statistics that don't really measure what they say they're measuring in order to prove that they were right all along. And then we wonder why people are skeptical...