Political reform
Sep. 26th, 2004 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueRight, well we've the American elections coming up in november, that's looking like it'll be a shocking stitch up again. I mean, there was fixing going on last time, and Bush won. And it becomes _easier_ when you're already in power and have the supreme court in your pocket.
Iraq held elections, and whilst they were bent as hell, they weren't quite as much of a cluster fuck as the debacle in California 4 years ago.
We've got the European union a bunch of corrupt hacks - the council are fiddling the books, and not wanting to 'play fair' with things like the common agricultural policy, because it favours certain member states.
And so I propose two political reforms.
The first is more extreme. Basically, we hold a coup, and take over the world. Let's start with the UK first, but eventually, dictatorship for all.
But here's the special part. When you become El Presidente, you have supreme arbitration over all issues. Your assets are removed, and merged with the state, guaranteing no outside interests.
And it's your duty to run the country as best you can. Make whatever decisions you like, and appoint whoever you think best.
The only thing that you cannot change is the 'regime change totalizer'. A trust fund-like pot of cash, that people can pay into if they think you're being a bit crap. This totalizer is 'published' once it hits an arbitrary sum, say 0.1% of the GDP (so you can make this point further away by improving the GDP). And it goes to the person who kills you.
So you're doing your good job, but if too many people think that "it's going a bit wrong" and are prepared to put their money where their mouth is, you get assassins coming after you. They can of course, change their mind, and retract the amount of money they've placed in the 'pool'.
So you have a job for life. And your job is to safeguard and improve the state of the nation.
Whilst you're in power, you have supreme authority, but if you screw up, then you get capped.
My other, is a little less extreme. It's a solution to immigration and asylum issues.
Don't get me wrong, I think immigration and asylum are important things. It's good for people to be able to improve their lot in life, and have refuge from 'bad conditions'.
But equally obviously, there's a finite limit - you can't support _too_ many people.
And so I propose the "Deport a fuckwit" program. For each incoming person seeking permanant residence to the UK, we deport some worthless scum. Now unfortunately, Australia won't let us do that any more, so I propose Siberian work crews. Averaged over a 5 year period, there'll be an assessment criteria for your worth to the country/community. Your worth will be elevated by paying taxes, doing voluntary work, charity contributions etc. It'll be diminished by claiming benefits, getting criminal records andwearing burberry being antisocial.
And when a new person wishes to become permanantly resident in the UK, from another country, we deport someone to siberia. This person, can of course, make a re-application to return to the UK after a year. Subject to having reformed, then someone else gets deported in their place.
And of course, we do have to refuse applications from people who'd immediately be on the 'deportee' list.
So we get a kind of natural selection, where we start encouraging the 'best' to come to the UK, because the arseholes get deported, so we have less per unit of the population. And we have work crews in siberia, counting trees, taking crash courses in self improvement, because there's only so much tree counting one person can take.
Iraq held elections, and whilst they were bent as hell, they weren't quite as much of a cluster fuck as the debacle in California 4 years ago.
We've got the European union a bunch of corrupt hacks - the council are fiddling the books, and not wanting to 'play fair' with things like the common agricultural policy, because it favours certain member states.
And so I propose two political reforms.
The first is more extreme. Basically, we hold a coup, and take over the world. Let's start with the UK first, but eventually, dictatorship for all.
But here's the special part. When you become El Presidente, you have supreme arbitration over all issues. Your assets are removed, and merged with the state, guaranteing no outside interests.
And it's your duty to run the country as best you can. Make whatever decisions you like, and appoint whoever you think best.
The only thing that you cannot change is the 'regime change totalizer'. A trust fund-like pot of cash, that people can pay into if they think you're being a bit crap. This totalizer is 'published' once it hits an arbitrary sum, say 0.1% of the GDP (so you can make this point further away by improving the GDP). And it goes to the person who kills you.
So you're doing your good job, but if too many people think that "it's going a bit wrong" and are prepared to put their money where their mouth is, you get assassins coming after you. They can of course, change their mind, and retract the amount of money they've placed in the 'pool'.
So you have a job for life. And your job is to safeguard and improve the state of the nation.
Whilst you're in power, you have supreme authority, but if you screw up, then you get capped.
My other, is a little less extreme. It's a solution to immigration and asylum issues.
Don't get me wrong, I think immigration and asylum are important things. It's good for people to be able to improve their lot in life, and have refuge from 'bad conditions'.
But equally obviously, there's a finite limit - you can't support _too_ many people.
And so I propose the "Deport a fuckwit" program. For each incoming person seeking permanant residence to the UK, we deport some worthless scum. Now unfortunately, Australia won't let us do that any more, so I propose Siberian work crews. Averaged over a 5 year period, there'll be an assessment criteria for your worth to the country/community. Your worth will be elevated by paying taxes, doing voluntary work, charity contributions etc. It'll be diminished by claiming benefits, getting criminal records and
And when a new person wishes to become permanantly resident in the UK, from another country, we deport someone to siberia. This person, can of course, make a re-application to return to the UK after a year. Subject to having reformed, then someone else gets deported in their place.
And of course, we do have to refuse applications from people who'd immediately be on the 'deportee' list.
So we get a kind of natural selection, where we start encouraging the 'best' to come to the UK, because the arseholes get deported, so we have less per unit of the population. And we have work crews in siberia, counting trees, taking crash courses in self improvement, because there's only so much tree counting one person can take.
