poor politicians

endle — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:11:15 +0000

Our country’s politicians are all very very wealthy people. The inherent problem with this is that the people who are supposed to be making laws for the average person have no idea what it is really like to be an average person. The everyday hardships and joys of the working person are alien to the wealthy, since they do not have to deal with these issues.
As a result, we have people making laws that tend to benefit the wealthy, or corporations, since that is where their wealth comes from.
A simple solution would be to make it so that politicians had to live in the poorest community in their district. Their food would come from their neighbors. Their bills would be payed by their neighbors. If the neighbors had no intention of paying that politician’s bills or feeding them, then that person would have to resign, or go and convince the neighbors that they were an asset to the comminuty.

I think by this simple shift, we would quickly see the poorest communities rise out of poverty. Education would become an important issue, as these same politicians would be sending their own children to the same schools as the poor.

The point is that there is a huge gulf between our politicians and the regular people in our country. They live at the top percentage of wealth. Their children go the most expensive schools and hospitals. They dine at restaurants that an average person would only dream of eating at.

How can these same people know what laws should exist for the American people, when they are so far removed from regular life in the United States. Instead, the interests of huge corporations are taken into consideration above those of people.

Until the everyday life of politicians is at least somewhere near what the everyday life is for the majority of our population, this gross imbalance will only become greater and wealth will become the final law.

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poor politicians