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Patti's avatar

The problem is really about money and power. People used to serve in the government out of a sense of duty as much as anything else. Private industry always paid better. Now it pays so well that gov’t has been corrupted....they love the power too! The entire DMV (DC, MD and VA) area is FULL of people sucking off the teat of gov’t. How do you change that? We must also have a balanced budget and accountability for all spending. More referendums so we can actually have a say in our governance. As far as testing for psycopaths, if you take the money and power out of the equation you won’t attract those types. Gov’t contractors need to be slashed and the war machine severely cut. Politicians spend like money grows on trees. They need to spend it like it is their own household budget and not a never ending supply of $ to throw around. It really is disgusting. If a massive number of people stopped paying taxes we’d get their attention don’t you think? They can’t arrest us all.

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Duchess's avatar

I love all the ideas, but I want to add one. We need to screen people for psycopathy. The psycopaths must be isolated from any of these systems.

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