Thought on politics...

Has anyone else noticed that the media does a lot of interviewing of politicians, pollsters, analysts, fellow members of the media, but where are the interviews of the general public?  Has anyone seen the random guy off the street being asked what he thinks of the budget?  Anyone asked a farmer?  A financial planner who is not from a giant firm?  The owner of a small business in a random town?  And so on and so forth?  Maybe I've just missed it.  It seems to me that the average person (despite the varying views from locale to locale, faith to faith, culture to culture) would have something to say about which programs have budget cuts.  For example, why - why on God's green earth are tax payers funding a special barber shop for folks at the Capitol?  Seriously?  I can barely afford to get my own hair cut!  Why are my tax dollars paying for a Rep from a state I don't live in to get his hair trimmed before heading to "work"?  It makes no sense and I don't recall anyone asking me if I thought it was okay.  *sigh*  Just had to put that out there because it has been irritating me...maybe I need to stop watching the news.