Bored Borg wrote:

The politician's answer is always to make new laws rather than enforce the
ones we already have.

Well, by definition, most politicians are lawmakers. Their only real
ability is to create and pass new laws, or remove old ones (and they
seem loath to do that). Sort of like hammers. Useful for some things
but really not the right tool for driving a screw. Asking a politician
to "do something" pretty much means they will try to pass a new law.

The few politicians who are actually administrators, they should be
able to do cover a wider range of function, but most of them started
out as lawmakers and mostly think all problems look like nails.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.