Random noise. Better than Congress
Sometimes… I just wish General Petraeus was in charge )-:
I know… as soon as that was an option, some other stinky General would grab the reigns.
Why do I wish for rule by someone of merit?
Because the fools we have now show NO merit. The first bills they are considering…. a consolidated bill that organizes all the pork rejected last year for passage this year.
I would like to revamp the Congress and add one additional house with members that are randomly chosen 2 per state. I call it the “Random House”. Members have no qualifications other than they be eligible to vote. Initially I envision them as only having a veto over bills passed by the Senate/House.
I’ll take random housewives, software executives and winos over the fools psychos we have now.
Update: I changed fools to psychos in the last sentence because I don’t really think people in Congress are fools. They are smart usually (Charlie Rangel aside). But I do think they are mostly psychos. That is because only psychos (or idle rich) choose politics as a career. Only psychos choose a job where you are one vote from being unemployed. That is just the way it is. The Random House adds a needed psycho check and balance.
January 9th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Reigns are for kings; reins are for horses.
A psycho, it sounds like, is any politico who disagrees with you but has the power to do it anyway. Why is not public service, including as a legislator, a legitimate and worthy career? Are police officers psychos as well? Is software writing more valuable to society than policing or soldiering?
January 9th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
I think Orrin Hatch is a psycho even though he probably philosophically agrees with me frequently. The process of a political career turns them pyscho and warps their view of right/wrong/proper/normal.
All cultures have people that gravitate to power. Our system used to have enough safe guards to give them what they want but also protect us from them. No more.
So my proposal adds more safety to the system. It isn’t radical, it extends the concept the founding fathers had. More like renews it – they envisioned real citizens governing, not the weirdos that gravitate to it as a career today.
As to police and software folks worth… well we get told that all the time in salaries and product sales. People have to choose what I make and sell. Politicians have made it so we can’t choose any longer. Campaign finance rules, gerrymandering, and also the growth of government, make politicing a full time gig – and only odd people want to do it.
Fine – let them. But I want something new holding them back.
January 10th, 2009 at 7:32 am
Free press anyone? If the press fails its duty who picks that up? Fraudulent voter cabals, a military junta, or the people’s arms?
January 26th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
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January 27th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
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