I'm not a big fan of some of the positions that Bill gates has taken on political issues lately(such as increased taxes) but there's something he said about why America beat Japan in the computing industry that I can draw parallels on. Apparently, Japan's take was that there was only one way to pursue the PC industry. One strategy, one platform. America on the other hand allowed for a multi-pronged approach trying out different hardware and software combinations to see what works and letting the market determine the final outcome. America won, Japan lost.

If we must have public officials (and I don't think we should have quite as many but that's a topic for another day), then it would be better to have a way to quickly isolate the ones who don't deliver and remove them for good before more damage is done. If something they did works, we can pick other officials who promise to build on what the previous officials had done.

Congress has an incredibly low approval rating. I can't imagine we could do much to make it worse.. why not try experimenting in order to make it better?