If the pay and benefits are so bad why do they so desperately clinging to such a job? Government elective office was never meant to be a career but a calling one did in the service of country for a period of time and then back to the private sector.
Now that the National Football League has apparently learned that it can be costly to hire cheap officials, perhaps the rest of us should learn the same lesson when it comes to government officials, whose bad calls can do a lot more damage.
What do we do when we want a better car, a better home or a better bottle of wine? We pay more for it. We definitely need a lot better crop of public officials. Yet we insist on paying flea market prices for people who will be spending trillions of tax dollars, not to mention making foreign policy that...
And although Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are great at what they do, would you really ant them running the country, with their liberal points of view? Gates would perhaps be ok, at least he's willing to donate to conservatives as well as liberals, but Buffet?