After watching the posturing on the Senate floor last week and the total meltdown in Illinois I have a suggestion. I know it will never happen, but it gives me some small satisfaction to imagine it. How about this amendment to the constitution? No person can run for any political office until they fulfill this requirement. They have to spend at least five years working for a living. And I don’t mean sales or moving numbers around. I mean the getting out and getting your hands dirty kind of work. Logging, farming, fishing, mining or carpentry; the kind of work that gets you tired down to the bone.
Then after we’ve checked the quality of their calluses, we’ll consider letting them run for dog catcher. After that? We’ll think about it. But, no access to power over the likes of me until you have some idea what life is like for me and those like me.
3 comments:
I'm with you Jackie. Politics has become a three ring circus (no insult to the hard working folks who work for The Circus) I'm tired of listening, watching, hearing.
There ought to be a law ...
... no wait ... there shouldn't ...
... but if there was then we could ...
...no, the American public would never go for another ...
... maybe they would.
Let's do it!
Heck, you never know until you try. We have to get back to making something rather than pushing paper around.
Now there's another stock market scandel. And somehow all the safeguards that were suppsed to spot this kind of corruption; but it didn't work........again.
It seems you have to jump through more hoops to get a job than to run for office!
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