If these times tell us anything, they suggest we could do with more regular folks in power.  As opposed to the elite.

The late William Buckley said he would rather entrust government of the country “…to the first 400 people in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.” 

Me too.  Lately we are governed by the equivalent of the Harvard types. And too many have always been too “important” to be listed in phone books.

Too many of our congressguys have never held a private sector job. Never. Think about that.  Barely any of the current cabinet have worked in the private sector. They dictate how those outside government should live and work. Yet they have never worked outside government themselves.

They supervise the creation of stacks of regulations for businesses. Yet they have never worked in one.

They create jungles of tax laws. They levy taxes upon taxes. Yet many have never looked at a tax return except to sign it.

Years ago, a major Ford dealer told me he lost faith in Ford in the men’s room.  He was at a big Ford conference. A bunch of heavies cleared him and others from the men’s room. So that the CEO could relieve himself in private. “I figured if the boss couldn’t take a leak with the dealers there was something wrong with the company.”  His words were prophetic.