Wake me Up Please

It seems to me that being a government that cares about people is not a hard thing to do, if the people who seek political office sought it for the people and not for themselves.
 Sorry, but it seems that way to me.
 It seems to me that the people who get into political power do so with the primary aim of enriching themselves and their families at the expense of the people they claim to want to get there to help improve themselves and their living conditions. Instead, what we find is a Caribbean where the economic well being of the people shifts with every passing of the political leadership baton. When one party is in power, the people who support that party get the jobs and opportunities, while the others  get nothing;and when the ones whose supporters were getting nothing gets into office, they make certain that the people, of the people who gave them nothing, receive nothing in return. It's a system in which each party feels that when they get into power, it is a "my turn now to look after my people, while we, the leaders, take the cream for ourselves because we are SUPPOSED to"- kind of thinking-.
 The people are stunned at how swiftly those who gain political power appear to acquire massive amounts of wealth, large mansions, sometimes several large mansions, regular expensive trips abroad and vehicles that cost nearly as much as the trips and the mansions combined, and all in a short five, or even ten years. Head-swir-ling-ly amazing.
Why can't our people get it in their brains that political power is not a "me" thing but a -"for the people"- thing?
 Why?
 Why is that so hard?
There is absolutely no reason in the world why hospitals, schools, roads, housing and education facilities in the Caribbean should not be among the best on the planet, both in operation and appearance. Enough money passes through these islands for it to be so, and if this money is only channelled unselfishly, the Caribbean would be a paradise of health, peace, and enviable progress. Much of the crime and delinquency in the region is caused by gruelling degrees of poverty and disillusionment, because the money is not channelled to meet the interest of the people. It is vicariously squandered in the interest of the politicians. We beg people to conserve water and energy  while we squander the people's money that they truly do work hard for, only to pay taxes that go down the  drain like water in an old-time flush toilet. We have been on air planes among Caribbean Government officials who fly first class.
 Why?
Sometimes they alone in this curtained compartment of the plane basking on leather seats as though if the air plane crashed, the first class passenger will be offered special privilege; and had they not been in political office they simply would not have been able to afford it, AND, if many of them even COULD afford it on their own hard earned money, they would not sit there.
 It seems to me that the people of the Caribbean are intelligent enough, talented enough, educated enough, thoughtful enough, and visionary enough in 2014 to be experiencing a far higher quality of life and standard of living. But maybe am experiencing a pipe dream.