New Idea for Political Reform

armstrongeconomics.com / by Martin Armstrong / Jun 2, 2017

The Belgian Historian and author David Van Reybrouck in his latest book, “Counter-elections”, has made a very interesting suggestion. He too has concluded that career politicians are just hopeless. It is so nice to see I am not alone. Van Reybrouck has proposed that politicians really cannot represent the people and perhaps the solution is to draft people to be in politics by lottery. This is an interesting proposition. I would add that anyone who takes up a position should be at the END of their career, not at the beginning or middle. In this way they bring the wisdom of experience with them and to be the Secretary of the Treasury that had to be an international fund manager rather than a domestic banker. The Secretary of War should be only someone with military service experience. In other words, you have to be qualified for the job.

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