They aren't. You assume that nothing in government happens unless citizens directly order it to; this is a bad assumption. Most of what happens in government, e

They aren't. You assume that nothing in government happens unless citizens directly order it to; this is a bad assumption. Most of what happens in government, especially at the federal level, is out of the hands of citizens. This is by design as we are a representative republic, but that relies on representatives not being corrupted and controlled by lobbyists and special interests. In the low-trust country we now live in, grift is the order of the day.