Lawyers are more orthodox to Politics than Accountants (Maths).
Personally I think Banks and Accountants should run our Economy (let the Politicians just run Politics).
They know how to get rich and they can take us all with them on the gravy train.

A Member of Politics, Art, Science, Sport, Music, Medicine, Environment/Farming, Maths (Economics) and many others should sit down at a Summit and discuss the future of this country each year.
Obviously at the moment, a Doctor would have the Seat among them all.

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So you dont like teachers lawyers or accountants - what professionals do you like?

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Valkie wrote on Feb 24^th, 2021 at 10:04am:


It it weren't for chemists, doctors would still be dancing around shaking rattles and calling on various gods to heal people.

You mean pharmacologists.

The last few decades have see the rise of the 'political class' in Australia and other western nations. People who study law or politics at university, go to work in an MPs office licking envelopes and gradually working their way up through the party until they get a run at parliament themselves.  These people have never worked outside politics or closely related fields like law or the union movement and have no concept of the way things work for the vast majority of Australians. 

At the moment these types have a tight grip on the political reins, but all is not yet lost.  We do have a few ex service personnel in parliament these days - not counting lawyers like Reynolds or McGowan - and people like Hanson who are definitely outside the fold.  We need more of these types to counter the lawyers and bean counters who infest the place.

dan ran a small business
he ran a farm
he had a coffee shop franchise
he mowed lawns on the weekend
he borrowed money to start a tech company
he lay in bed at night sweating about his business loans
he ran several gyms'
he trained as a chef and opened a resturant.

now we are proud to have him as our war time leader

(actually after he finished his 8 years doing an arts degree , he became a political staffer )

but look at that keen eye.
that entrepreneurial face
winner winner chicken dinner

Some good points brought up.
My take on the Banks is good and bad. The Australian Big 4 Banks are very high on the list of best performing Banks in the world. But we also know that many Customers have been ripped off blind by these Banks too - to get to that ranking, as we have seen recently.

There are some really good Politicians and we've seen some shockers. But thankfully we've not had Politicians like many other nations have - who basically destroy their nations ( the CIA have been busted many times funding these Politicians under the table to keep their nations weak as a potential competitor to the USA, while they get the Media to blast them over the table for their evil ways. It still goes on.)

PM's serve the USA (Rudd served China more, didn't like Murdoch, was replaced by Gillard, who loved America more than this country - let alone just hate men).
Gov-Generals serve the UK.

...only Premiers seem to serve Australia. Maybe we should have Premier Summits who sit down and tell the PM's and Gov-Generals what to do?

aquascoot wrote on Feb 24^th, 2021 at 2:24pm:


And steeped in the fine arts of perverting the course of justice, perjury and obfuscation..

Get out more...

Sprintcyclist wrote on Apr 27^th, 2007 at 11:10am:


Business people makes sense. The only reason we don't have more is that they would have to take a massive pay cut to deal with twice as much BS.

Scientists not. Science does not really give you any useful tools for politics or management.

Jasin wrote on Feb 24^th, 2021 at 8:02pm:


He said business people not failed business people ?

I gather Trump was the American Ranga version of this Brownie from the Middle-East

"A River to his People".

Sprintcyclist wrote on Apr 27^th, 2007 at 11:10am:


Absolutely no way!!!. They already control most everything from the back office, and you want to give them direct control so the needs and wants of the common woman and man can be totally ignored.

If you want to genuinely address the imbalance then sortition should appeal to you. In Ancient Athens, in addition to the general assembly of citizens who would make the major decisions (Will we go to war or not and how will we spend the money) there was also a council of 500 who were selected every 2 years from all the citizens (farmers, blacksmiths, weavers, potters, swordsmiths etc) NOT by election but by lottery and they made the more minor decisions and also prepared matters for consideration by the Assembly. The beauty of sortition is that it eliminates the need for politicians because the 2 major decision making bodies are the General Assembly and a council selected on rotation by lottery and not elections.  The system greatly reduces corruption and makes better decisions because the decision makers are not bought politicians or politicians more interested in wining or keeping their jobs than what the people want. 

Dnarever wrote on Feb 25^th, 2021 at 7:57pm:

Exactly!

freediver wrote on Feb 25^th, 2021 at 9:50pm:


Worked with a few.

One was a physicist, lectured at Syd Uni 2 days a week and for the CSIRO 3 days. Very smart guy, smarter than 95% of our politicians.

Quote:


Skew political policy even further in the wrong direction and entrench corruption deeper than it already is.

More hostile towards workers.

More focused on unfair industrial policy

No redeeming factors.

Make bad government even worse.