Who do you trust?

I have been thinking about government in general and people in general and some questions have come to my mind.

One of which is: Why do we think that people we do not know and that do not know us will be the right people to turn our money and our very lives over to? I mean think about it; we send folks to office with the power to spend our money. That money is simply a tabulatable representation of our time and effort here on earth. It represents our labor and initiative. We take this very important measure of our effort and hand it to people we do not know to spend on whatever they wish.

Predictably, most of the spending is not in our best interest.

Why?

Another question I have is: Why do we believe that someone with no real world experience at anything other than being a lawyer and politician will be able to regulate technologically complex issues such as oil production and the environment? Why do we believe that folks that have no record of success in business will somehow be able to direct a society?

Might there have been a reason that the Founding Fathers of this once great nation limited the power of the Federal Government to little indeed?