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Politicians are not our leaders, they're our servants.

Everything they do is at our expense.

Still, somehow over time we've ended up in a situation where many politicians seems to think of themselves as our moms and dads and get to decide our finances with almost zero accountability and visibility.

This leads to some interesting side effects like that if some public activity doesn't work or is not needed anymore, istead of stopping the activity and unnecessary spending of resources (like any sane person in private sector would probably do), governments expands the activity, increase the funding and try even harder. There are countless of examples of them.