How did our great country get in the situation it's in? Here's a sad story that sums it up pretty nicely - the stupid taking precedence over success - from Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning.

A little bitty beetle and they stop the whole project. One Burying Beetle. And so the biologist has to go out there and he sets this traps and you've seen these buckets right? ...The biologist goes out in the morning, grabs the beetles and they take them 2 miles down and they gently let the beetles out. So that the beetles will survive.