Ok, so I know I don't usually worry about politics (who needs that headache?) but here is my take on the political system in the USoA, and probably stands true for any country that has had free elections for any length of time. The biggest problem is that politics has become a career, rather than a service. It has become an industry that produces no products, creates few useful services, consumes the most of materials of any other industry and has a consumer base that even Bill Gates must be envious of. What ever happened to political figures serving their time and then moving off into an actual productive position of society? Now they come for the power and stay for the power (and kick back money).

 

What should be done is that people involved in the political machine should be paid minimum wage, locked at what the wage was when they started their career path, and live in communal government house (or chose to purchase their own domicile). Bribes under any name should be illegal with a punishment of a number of public lashes equal to the value of the bribe in whole dollars. All of this would hopefully have the effect of weeding out the bozos and bringing in the people that actually want to offer a service to the country.

 

Track switch, i posted some pictures of my recent attempt to create a custome Lego model. Using two separate StarWars Lego kits i put together a model of the Black Bird from Battle Star Galactica (the stealth viper for those that don't remember). If the pictures, located in the Legos folder within the Blog Photos folder, are not accessible please let me know so that i may mess with the permissions some.