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I have been watching grumpy old men, and worryingly I find myself agreeing to pretty much everything they say. Here's what I think should be done on a number of issues...
My friends will know that I am prone to these kind of rants. My friends also know that voting for me (should i ever be mad enough to run for public office) would probably be a bad idea.
I don't mean to offend with this, although I probably will. Mostly I just like stiring the shit. :D
Immigration
Fuck it.
Economic Migrancy is perfectly fair and good. It is whats called a "Free Market Economy" and is what the UK and US have fought wars to maintain - you can't have your cake and eat it. If people from Serbia (or in the case of the US - Mexico) want to come to your country let them.
Immigrants are productive members of society because most of them want to be here and will work hard to stay. If, as a citizen of the host nation, you loose your job to an immigrant. Tough. It is your job to keep yourself competative and employable. Stop bitching and work harder.
Crime and punishment
Responsibility
People should be responsible for their own actions, and all people should be treated equally in the eyes of the law. We should do away with this rediculous age of criminal responsibility crap.
It is irrelivant whether someone is beaten up by a 12 year old at school or by a 25 year old in a nightclub. Assault is assault, and should be treated as such. Bullying etc should not be handled internally, the police should be involved from the get-go. Jail time should be metered out as appropriate.
The rights of criminals
When you break the law, you waive your rights for protection under the law. The upshot being, if you break into someone's house and get mauled by their rocweiller or they decide to chop your fingers off with a meat cleaver, you have no right to bitch.
Disruption and truency at school
Don't waste state resources. If a child is too stupid to realise that working hard and learning stuff at school is in their own best interests then they should simply be removed from school and the place given to someone who will appreciate it. For example, someone from the third world.
If they then can only get a shit job in later life, tough.
MP3s and the music industry
You no longer have a monopoly on distribution. Stop crying about it and start investing money into producing good albums that people want to buy.
Religions
Are silly, but we can't stop people believing in fairies as much as we might like to. Everyday quiet faith doesn't do much harm and can be tollerated, but it should be illegal for anyone with religious beliefs to serve in public office.
Taxation
There should be no more silly taxes on random things. There should be one tax, and one tax only, that everyone pays based on their ability to pay. Everything the government wants to spend money on should be paid for out of this pot.
A voter should be provided with an individual and detailed recipt every april with exactly what their money was spent listed.
Light weight government
Governments should not mess around in the day to day running of peoples lives. Provided it doesn't halm another then people should be allowed to do whatever the hell they want to do and go wherever the hell they like without having to be tracked, stamped, audited and taxed at every point in the process.
A government should not be so afraid of its own people that it needs to monitor and control every aspect of their lives.
General elections should be held annually, and MPs should have how much they get paid set by their constituancy as an extra box on the ballet paper.
Anyway... rant over.. :D
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