Its VERY simple. Press. This gets them in the news. Politicians are press whores that do not care about logic and especially not efficiently using their resources. Because they are not their resources and there is little benefit to being responsible. If the voters were to actually pay attention and use their brains then you might have a prayer of holding politicians would act in responsible ways. This has never been the case and I don't see it changing.

Demagoguery rules the day.