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Reged: 05/09/05
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Loc: Waltham, MA
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Re: Yeay! Both houses agree on a pile of crap!
08/01/11 06:50 PM
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> You can bet they and their cronies are taken care of! I say fuck them all. Get rid of > every politician and call regular people in to run the country similar to how it is > done for jury duty. Only you would serve for 2 years instead of a week. I'd rather > have a single mother that has to make a certain amount of money last to feed her > children, etc. making the calls. I think the average person would do a better job > than the crooked fuckers that we have had for quite some time. All of the pork barrel > shit would be eliminated. All of the big corporations buying politicians would be > over. Etc, etc, etc.
It's a nice idea, but that would be a million times worse. Politicians hardly have a monopoly on greed. Imagine some minimum wage shlub thrust into that position for two years. Sure, some people would be honest and do the right thing, but plenty would take the opportunity to line their pockets as much as possible. Power corrupts.
Not to mention, the better politicians at least have some kind of understanding of what's going on. Imagine someone with a high school education or less trying to even comprehend global politics, let alone make intelligent policy decisions. I am college educated and consider myself reasonably smart, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to do a very good job of it. It would be like a whole government full of Michelle Bachmann and worse.
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