You are correct, sir...I do not know you.
But I promise you, your elected officials do not have the "appropriate" background in economics, law and public policy either. Very few were former lawyers (mostly prosecutors), fewer to none were working or educated economists (as can be realized by noting a budget deficit...even a freshman in college knows you can not spend money you do not have!)
and as far as I am aware of, there is NO public policy degree or field of education in ANY American university.
The simple fact of the matter is, like with anything, in order to gain experience, you must first have experience. No one is capable of doing anything until they at least make the attempt to learn it. Which is why politics is a game you must jump in with both feet. There is no slow, immersive educational course. There is a slow career course, wherein an individual goes to work in the offices of elected officials, until they choose to branch out on their own. That is a less-common approach than you might realize.
The crux of the situation is this...if the average citizen does not feel that he is capable of running for office, and completing the duties of that office...then that position is too complicated for the world in which we all live. Government should not be complex and unwieldy. It should be a manageable proposition, both for those elected and the constituents for which they speak. Laws should never be so complex that the common man cannot understand them, and need a professional to interpret them...how in the world would any of us be able to memorize verbatim all the laws that affect our lives? Oh wait...we can't. When the common man can't know the laws he is supposed to obey to be a "good" citizen, he becomes a slave living in a box...trapped by his desire to be "good", while the indiscriminate live as they please. Laws only repress those who obey them. That is why there is an ever expanding rise of criminal behavior. I don't need to be kept in line, the criminals do. Laws should be common sense, always.
What an interesting point of view...we should not question those elected officials when we feel they aren't doing a good job? We should just elect them to represent us, pay our taxes to pay their salaries, and live with the mess they make? Bizarre. The whole point of electing officials to represent us, is that they do just that. They should REPRESENT our voice...our concerns...our wishes. Nothing more, nothing less.
This wasn't about whether any of us agree specifically with President Obama's policies, but whether the award for the Nobel Prize for Peace was merited.
But I promise you, your elected officials do not have the "appropriate" background in economics, law and public policy either. Very few were former lawyers (mostly prosecutors), fewer to none were working or educated economists (as can be realized by noting a budget deficit...even a freshman in college knows you can not spend money you do not have!)
and as far as I am aware of, there is NO public policy degree or field of education in ANY American university.
The simple fact of the matter is, like with anything, in order to gain experience, you must first have experience. No one is capable of doing anything until they at least make the attempt to learn it. Which is why politics is a game you must jump in with both feet. There is no slow, immersive educational course. There is a slow career course, wherein an individual goes to work in the offices of elected officials, until they choose to branch out on their own. That is a less-common approach than you might realize.
The crux of the situation is this...if the average citizen does not feel that he is capable of running for office, and completing the duties of that office...then that position is too complicated for the world in which we all live. Government should not be complex and unwieldy. It should be a manageable proposition, both for those elected and the constituents for which they speak. Laws should never be so complex that the common man cannot understand them, and need a professional to interpret them...how in the world would any of us be able to memorize verbatim all the laws that affect our lives? Oh wait...we can't. When the common man can't know the laws he is supposed to obey to be a "good" citizen, he becomes a slave living in a box...trapped by his desire to be "good", while the indiscriminate live as they please. Laws only repress those who obey them. That is why there is an ever expanding rise of criminal behavior. I don't need to be kept in line, the criminals do. Laws should be common sense, always.
What an interesting point of view...we should not question those elected officials when we feel they aren't doing a good job? We should just elect them to represent us, pay our taxes to pay their salaries, and live with the mess they make? Bizarre. The whole point of electing officials to represent us, is that they do just that. They should REPRESENT our voice...our concerns...our wishes. Nothing more, nothing less.
This wasn't about whether any of us agree specifically with President Obama's policies, but whether the award for the Nobel Prize for Peace was merited.
You are not me. You do not have the faintest notion of my education, my training, me life
experiences, nor where my expertise lies. I have the complete and utmost confidence in
those areas where I feel I am qualified. I am in no way qualified to be an elected politician
nor am I qualified in anyway to manage the budget decisions that must be made in this
economy. I do not posses the appropriate background in economics, law, and public policy.
Period.
Perhaps a huge problem in the US is all those armchair politicians that falsely believe they
can do a better job, manage to get themselves elected, and then fail miserably when they
get into office. Or, all those armchair politicians that feel they can do a better job and
debase those who are sure they cannot.
Ian