17th June 2008, 8:43 PM
Well, the problem isn't that the politicians are short-sited it has more to do with the average folk who put them in office being short-sited. When you're doing everything you can just to put food on the table and take care of the bills, it kind of starts to beceome a lot more about the here and now and not about what might or could happen in some indistinct number of years in the future.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.