http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/28/congress-unproductive_n_2371387.html
Why in God’s name would you consider passing new laws being
“productive”? I would consider a Congress that passed NO new laws–no,
one which revoked existing laws–to be “productive”. Beyond any
possibility of contradiction, the existence of new laws is, ipso facto, a
curtailment in our liberty.
Of course, if fascism is your aim, then absolutely you have picked the correct system of measurement.