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Since the dark days of Clintonian diddling in the Oval Office, American citizens have done naught but despair at the state of democracy. From townships to state government and in our nation's capital, people were far more willing to trust stock brokers and mortgage lenders than to put even an ounce of faith in government's ability to do right by them. And who can blame them? From Jack Abramoff to Larry Craig, politicians firmly cemented a reputation for being all too willing to throughly sodomize anyone and everyone to get what they wanted.

Even the most inebriated striped-shirt wearing douchebag unsteadily signaling for a cab after closing time at Drink can offer something for those truly motivated to accentuate the positive. So it is with the stimulus package recently signed into law as Minnesotans strain to understand what's in it for them.

The average politician maintains a tenuous grasp on reality, only deigning to view the world with lucid eyes every few years in the all too brief window of time surrounding elections.