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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Daylight Saving Time
  • Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:26:56 -0700


I sometimes wonder if one of the pre-req's for being a politician is putting
common sense in cold storage.

No, they are instead liberal arts majors with no understanding of science.

Congress was traditionally dominated by those who have served time in the legal profession. In 1993, 45% of Congressmen were lawyers by profession. Within America, law has always been a well rewarded profession from a financial point of view and a law background was deemed important to someone who wished to be a member of America’s legislative body. However, in the 105th Congress, the total number of lawyers declined to 225 and in the House of Representatives former lawyers were outnumbered by former businessmen and bankers for the first time. 33 senators were also from a business background.
the other main occupational groups are public service (a total of 126 in Congress ), education (87 in Congress), farmers (30 in Congress), real estate (28 in Congress) and journalists (21 in Congress). There is a noticeable lack of former manual workers in Congress or people with a trade union background. Many Representatives and Senators are very wealthy : over 25% of Congress are millionaires. This fact needs to be linked with the financing of elections which are practically out of the reach of most people who might want to get involved in politics.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/recruit.htm





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