I'll be brief on this, and we can split it into it's own thread, but you don't seem to be using the idea of Occam's Razor correctly.
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Occam%27s_Razor
However, you're absolutely right if you consider that what politicians are giving you is a false simplicity, and runs entirely counter to Occam's Razor.
Well, I did have an incorrect interpretation of Occam's Razor, but I still dislike it. Not because it's a bad idea.
In my eyes, the idea that:
When several theories are able to explain the same observations, Occam's razor suggests the simpler one is preferable.
I completely agree with that, but I think there is one cleverly hidden implication, which is really what I was trying (and failing, as usual

) to express. It comes down to that last phrase really:
the simpler one is preferable
SIMPLE IS PREFERRABLE
I'd go as far to say that a lot of new scientific theories fall pray to a kind of simplicity halo effect, like when judging the personality of faces we equate beauty with positive characteristics. Simplicity is dangerously reinforced in a lot of spheres, and it may even be the case (to stretch the meme/gene parallels a touch) that simplicity of memes is selected for in meme transference, for the obvious ease in spreading an idea and in comprehending.
Hell it might even be that our lazy brains select for simplicity, consider the beautiful = good phenomena in face perception. What is beautiful? In very broad strokes we're talking about things like skin clarity (textural simplicity?) and symmetry (geometric simplicity?). Bloody simplicity is everywhere.
Now I'm gonna jump the gun a bit here, and suggest that someone will say something along the lines of "why use a paragraph when you can use a word", which is absolutely right (sort of). But there's no point in doing that if you're using the wrong word. So to bring it back to the original subject, Occam's Razor for me represents a subtle trend towards simplicity for the sake of simplicity.
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Edd
p.s. @LMNO, it may or may not clarify my point somewhat to know that I study psychology, as such the theories in my mind when talking about this sort of thing tend to be psychological theories, which are tend to be a lot messier than in other sciences.