Imagine, if you will, what it would be like if roughly 40 percent of a nation’s primary rule-making body were comprised of HR professionals. Or retired Air Force generals. Or any profession, such as dairy producers, for that matter. Just let your mind run with that for a second. Now ask yourself why we in the U.S. (and other places) should expect better than we’re getting from our legislatures and Congress when it’s dominated by lawyers – people, according to Thomas Jefferson, “whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing and talk by the hour.”