> Also, not all problems can be solved. This is something it took me a long time to integrate. Politicians, especialy politicos with their backs against a wal

> Also, not all problems can be solved. This is something it took me a long time to integrate. Politicians, especialy politicos with their backs against a wall, face demands to "do something about it" that they can't resist. The result is often a treatment that is worse than the disease. If that's true, the corrollary is that we shouldn't mock politicians when they come up with "solutions" that are ineffectual - provided they're just ineffectual, and not Trojan horses for some more insidious plan. Perhaps the best answer to "something must be done" is to do something - anything - that doesn't cost too much, and doesn't do much harm.