"John D. Giorgis" schreef:
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Kat's supposed arrogance and (according to John) somewhat misplaced pride in what
she and her family are and what they stand for and how that places them (again
according to John) justly outside of the wealth of society.
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I hope I didn't bodge that one. But that is how I interpreted the statements made.
So, I do have a problem with your statements. _I_ could never replace a good
farmer. I simply haven't got it in me. I manage to kill most plants and only the
sturdiest survive. I couldn't kill an animal if my life depended on it. But I like
to eat good meat (now and then) and all those nice veggies. So I wouldn't dream of
replacing Kat or any other farmer. And taking a wider swing I wouldn't even dream
of replacing any nurse, teacher or other by you called 'low value jobs'.
What bugs me here is that there are still a lot of politicians doing... not much
for the general wellfare of the public and as a reward get paid rather hansomely
for it. Some of them seem to me more like over fed, over paid good for nothing
idiots tottering along as the overhead of our state is growing. While the true
values of society (food production/ healthcare/ education and social services),
that which makes us a humane society, barely manage to meet ends, these power
people never seem to have any problem raising _their_ income with 25% because they
seem to think they are the gods in our society put there by us. What a feary tale.
They present and flaunder a smug attitude of being better then the rest of
society, untoucheble and irriplaceble so to speak.
I'd love to vote to make participation in politics a voluntary job, take the money
out of it. To asure survival to the politician, he wouldn't get paid more then
minimum wage, and only for those hours spent on the job. Also he'd get not a penny
more then was actually laid out for simple expenses. Alas I also see a lot of
problems rising from a government of mere amateurs. It is for the moment utopical
and not really feasible. Call it wishfull thinking while wearing pink glasses,
completely ignoring any problems inherent to this system.
On a more realistic note, I think the biggest problem in politics as far as I can
see it, is that lots of regulations that are rigorously and without any form of
mercy applied to the general populace are not applied to our governmental force,
because they are 'special / better / irriplaceble ?!'. I really think that that
should change. Let them live under exactly the same rules and regulations as we
do, with the same modest wages and without all that 'schnik schnak' that 'goes
with the job'. Let them be annoyed at having to stand in line for a meal, a
busticket or a seat on the plane. Let them get angry over being caught up in
traffic every day and the unworkabillity of stupid tax rules. I bet that would
improve a lot of our system fast, while at the same time also reducing a lot of
overhead. But who'd be the judge, the regulator, the one to prevent
excesses/unfairness?????
I guess that would bring us into the transparent realm of David again..... :o)
...of which I'm also not such a big fan. So we keep on tumbling along, untill
humanity becomes a bit more mature and finally grows out of it's childish sandbox
mentality.
Sonja
