At 10:23 AM 2/13/01 +0100, Sonja wrote:
>So, I do have a problem with your statements. _I_ could never replace a good
>farmer.
But what about a bad one?
More importantly, what if 50% of the population was engaged in farming,
even though if only 10% of the population was engaged in famring there
would still be plenty of food for everybody?
>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.
In the United States, the President of the United States recently received
a pay raise from $200,000 per year to $400,000 per year. Considering what
people can make in private industry, this doesn't seem exorbitant.
We also recently passed a Constitutional Amendment the prevents all pay
raises for Congress from taking effect until after the next election.
>I'd love to vote to make participation in politics a voluntary job, take
the money
>out of it.
Ben Franklin actually proposed this during the writing of the US
Constitution. It was voted down because it would effectively restrict
participation in politics to the independently wealthy.
I personally think that term limits are a much better option.
JDG
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