Posted on 01/05/2020 4:06:03 AM PST by Fzob
How I Put Food on the Table I’d better start with the basics: I’m a politician. My job is to oversee public services like roads and police.
You may think mine a mostly passive job—the humble public servant faithfully channeling the Will of the People and doing his best to effect it in a difficult political environment.
But the truth is I’m an entrepreneur just like Zuckerberg. To advance my career I must find a problem people worry about—or can be persuaded to worry about—and then convince them I’m a better bet to solve it than the other candidate. I scour Twitter for the outrage of the week. I look for industry missteps I can claim to solve by hiring regulators.
Anything is fair game: the public hazard of unlicensed florists. Reckless dispensation of plastic straws. The pet rescuer menace.
Like other entrepreneurs, there are no limits on where I can look for problems to “productize”; I don’t have to stick to just the roads and the police. In fact, if I did I’d be out of a job quickly because my field is brutally competitive. Anything is fair game: the public hazard of unlicensed florists. Reckless dispensation of plastic straws. The pet rescuer menace. The low hanging fruit is long picked; to keep putting food on my table, I have to get imaginative.
I make it sound like a burden, but finding causes to champion is the easy part of my job, and thundering about them in the news is great fun. “Six million seniors are being deprived of meals!” I’ll scream. “Democrats want to give undocumented immigrants cars!” All the attention and theatrics of being a professional wrestler, without the bruises.
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Works fine until people figure out all that crap you have been saying about immigration and borders turns into something you all of a sudden have to start taking serious because, well, after all, you said it.
Hilarious
“I promised universal healthcare to 275 million Americans when they’re older and sicker. I confess: I lied. Taxpayers will need to fork over $999,000 each to make good on those promises. Spoiler alert: they don’t have the money.”
Never give up the con.
Senator and house member should be
Part time job.
60k
Meets 8 to 12 weeks out of there year at MOST.
WTF? They can spend 3 years doing nothing but going after Trump so maybe 12 weeks is too much.
NO perks.
I think they already are working part time. The balance is spent grifting. It's time consuming to grift at a professional level.
Term limits is what needed. I know a dream that will never happen
That’s it!!
Their titles should be congressman/grifter!!!
Youre a genius :)
At least it would be honest.
Well something’s gotta be done cause it can’t go on like this
Would making senators’ terms shorter help or is that term in the constitution?
Nothing better than serving up truth wrapped in humor
Responding to the title with my tag line.
Subtitle?...”God Bless Factionalism”...
This is a great read; thanks for posting it.
If things were allowed to get cheaper over time, consumers would stop buying and succumb to the vice of saving. Workers would lose their jobs, and a plague of unemployment would descend upon the land. What you really need is for everything to get 2 percent more expensive every year.
“Worth the read“
Absolutely. I’m going to remember this guy. How? By making this post which I can refer back to sometime.
“Jim Kelly is a technology executive and weekend dissident writing from the data mines of San Francisco. He holds a BA from Berkeley and Ph.D. from Princeton.”
Great Bio, he’s from the trenches of Silicon Valley and UC Berkeley. I think I’ll follow HIM! (/sarc)
You sir are not part of that 0.001%
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