Most of those people can’t and don’t know how to run any kind of business.
Two years ago I out out on Facebook, right at the beginning of the 2016 Campaign, the Dairy Queen challenge. I wanted each candidate to run a DQ for two weeks and lets see the results. The one who could have run one and made profit was probably Trump.
All these Liberals talk a great game, very few can actually deal with and understand running a business.
I am reminded when former Senator George McGovern, had retired, the Great Liberal, he bought and tried to run and bed and breakfast in Vermont. It failed and went bankrupt. His comment was he never dreamed how hard it was to run a business and what the average businessman went through. What Irony given he helped pass so much legislation to make it so hard. What a Flaming Hypocrite.
Wow! That was a great post!
He did seem to repent, at least by implication - so I give him that much credit.But my point relates to Term Limits: Our problem is people who make a lifetime’s living as political officials. We need term limits, but we also need a minimum age requirement of 35 for most government officials. We need people who already did run a business, or at least learn a trade, before the briefly serve in elected office. The bad news is, we will have to actually pay for the talent we want and need. We want people with professions to sacrifice a few years of seniority in their professions and they shouldn’t have to make sustain other hardships to do so. A congressman needs a residence in Washington, and he needs money to retain his home in his district as well.
So the pay should be good, but the job should be temporary - and no pension, because we don’t want “lifers."
Not only that, but afterwards McGovern said that if he only knew then what he learned now from his failing business, he would not have been what he was in the Congress.
If the ass hole had any integrity he would have railed up and down about that last bit.
My former Communist representative David Bonior lamented the same thing. After he retired, he was helping one of his children who had a restaurant and was whining how expensive it was to make a profit. My sympathy was zero