Experienced politicians.....huh?

  I read an article in a newspaper that read, to the effect..." Americans vote for experienced politicians ".  I had to take a step back...re-read it.  The article was comparing Democrats to the GOP.... with the GOP being conservative and Democrats being "experienced ".  Assuming  that Americans voted for experienced politicians in the last several elections, then we can assume that Americans voted FOR the huge deficit, they elected to LOSE their jobs and they unilaterally believed that their elected officials would create a wonderful Health Care system for all.  I try not to assume and hope that the previous sentences are Orwellian in thought only.  I am not saying I could have prevented any of these things from occuring....but I am saying that I would have seen the signs earlier...I would not have listened to advisors that said " everything will be ok " and I would have reacted quicker in the face of stalled government and loss of finances that affected more than a million soldiers and their families.  How experienced do you have to be to see the warning signs and act upon them?  Obviously less experienced than the folks that have taken this country to the lowest point since, perhaps, the Great Depression.