That's not an accurate summary. A better summary comes in the last paragraph of the article:
It's no longer acceptable for us to not take responsibility for our Congress
anymore. If we want it to be better then throwing bums out, and replacing them
with new bums doesn't seem to be doing the trick. Let's work instead to
educate whomever is in Congress, and the professional class around them.
In particular, with law enforcement, it's not as much an issue of how much money is spent on law enforcement (though that also matters), but whether the right things are prohibited. There are some things that few people would argue for decriminalizing (say, driving a truck bomb into a building), but a lot more questions past that.
