Things To Do When I Rule the World

[constance]

1. Make every American participating in Our Glorious Free Market System work six months in (a) retail and (b) food service, thereby giving everyone a thorough understanding of what exactly these guys put up with on a daily basis. People who don't shop or eat out are exempt.


2. Similarly, make every entitled Social Darwinist in existence live as a minimum-wage-earning single mother of three for two years. SDs who have tugged themselves out of poverty by their proverbial bootstraps are required to participate in a six-month refresher course.


3. Abolish people incapable of using their turn signals from the roads.


4. Tax everyone one oatmeal raisin cookie or tuna sandwich (taxpayer's choice) during their lifetime.

Comments

[dahlia-777.livejournal.com]

# Similarly, make every entitled Social Darwinist in existence live as a minimum-wage-earning single mother of three for two years. A notorious Tory called Michael Portillo did this for a week for a TV programme over here. He was really smug about agreeing to the experiment at all, and didn't seem to learn anything. He also got a fee from the TV company that was about ten times the amount the single mother received.

The only upside was she was a feisty type who on her return ticked the bastard off for 1) bullying her daughter and 2) not cleaning her kitchen floor properly.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I was going to say that that is why I'd want to shoot for two years: time enough to exhaust a person, make them forget that there was ever anything more available to them.

But then again, I suppose knowing that there was a time limit would always make things easier. :-?