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Comments on: What Are Jobs Worth https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/12/14/what-are-jobs-worth/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:58:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/12/14/what-are-jobs-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-50234 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:58:19 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=12504#comment-50234 In reply to Kryten42.

Politicians are carried as a necessary expense, like sewage fees, so no one expects them to be productive, but we have twice as many chambers as we need in our legislative branch, It is well past the time when out version of the “House of Lords” needs to be retired from active participation.

Alas, that requires them to vote themselves out of existence with a Constitutional amendment, and that will never happen.

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By: Kryten42 https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/12/14/what-are-jobs-worth/comment-page-1/#comment-50232 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:09:07 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=12504#comment-50232 About time someone did this study. I notice the omission of ‘Politicians’ in the study however. I am certain a study would show that politicians rank about at least the same or higher than bankers in terms of waste, societal drain, and environmental damage. There are a hell of a lot of useless politicians around, when you count local, state and federal politicians.

If we eliminated politicians, bankers, lawyers and marketers, there may well be a hundred-fold increase in value to society in almost every area, including a significant reduction on population strain on Earth’s resources. It would solve so many pressing problems! 😈

It’s a win-win scenario really. 😀 I’ll sleep much better tonight!

Sadly… reality will return to bite in the morning on this Bizzaro World we live on, where the people who actually do have value think they don’t, and the people who have no value think they do. What an insane World. Oh well…

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