> I would respectfully submit that the common American assumption that the government cannot be trusted to do anything right is self-fulfilling. This, pretty m

> I would respectfully submit that the common American assumption that the government cannot be trusted to do anything right is self-fulfilling. This, pretty much. It has bottomed out civic participation such that the majority of civic participation comes from businesses whose engagement is about gaming the system. I admittedly do not have stats to back that sentence up, but I suspect I could find them.