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Skriven 2011-02-22 07:17:00 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 14316 av Mark Hofmann (1:261/1304)
Ärende: Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war
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Replying to a message of Mark Hofmann to Robert Bashe :

 MH> þ> The basic fact is that there's little political "quality" in _any_
 MH> country  þ> nowadays, if I also consider Germany and what I know
 MH> about the rest of the  þ> world. Helmut Schmidt, our previous and
 MH> still living chancellor (at 92),  þ> said it: nowadays politics is
 MH> seen as a profession, not as a means to help  þ> the country and
 MH> people. þ>  þ> I wish things were different, too, but they're not.

 MH> That is very true.  I'm not sure what the answer to that is, but
 MH> setting term  limits to the amount of years a person can spend in any
 MH> political position  would be a start.  Maybe setting a 10 year max
 MH> lifetime limit or something.  That way, they would actually have to
 MH> do something other than be career  politions.

Summary execution at the end of one term has been suggested.  Discourages
recidivism <g>.

I'd also put time limits on bureaucratic positions:  five years in any one job,
ten years
total in any one department, twenty years total service.  Keep the bureaucrooks
so busy
looking for a place to land they don't have time to prey on the people.

"It is, for example, one of my firmest and most sacred beliefs, reached after
an inquiry
extending over a score of years and supported by incessant prayer and
meditation, that the
government of the United States, in both its legislative arm and its executive
arm, is ignorant,
incompetent, corrupt, and disbusting - and from this judgment I except no more
than twenty
living lawmakers and no more than twenty executioners of their laws.  It is a
belief no less
piously cherished that the administration of justice in the Republic is stupid,
dishonest and
against all reason and equity - and from this judgment I except no more than
thirty judges,
including two upon the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States." - H
.L. Mencken,
'On Being An American," 1922.  The situation has become much worse in the
intervening
89 years.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+
 * Origin: Bob's Boneyard, Emerson, Iowa (1:300/3)