Well, they're not serving the public interest, that's why. They're serving their major sources of funding, in my opinion, and I'm not talking about taxes. I'm talking about a government that's in the hands of a wealthy elite, and does whatever that wealthy elite wants done, period. The same thing happens in Canada, the UK, etc. The public is not in charge of the situation. Elections are a phony PR exercise whose intent is to give the public the very false impression that they are briefly in charge of the situation...on one day: election day. The moment election day is over, though, the public is once again not in charge...because the people they voted in do not work FOR the public. They work for the wealthy elite which funds the election campaigns and owns the mass media, not to mention the military-industrial complex. The public are peasants. Serfs. Worker bees. And their jobs are vanishing to places like China, Mexico, and India.