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>The idea of the second chamber being appointed still has merit.
I would only amend that to read "the idea of the second chamber being appointed *by me* still has merit <s>
> A lot of politicians have never done anything else and have no experience of industry or science etc.
I think it should be required that no one can run for any public office until they have actually done something in real life for a minimum of 20 years.
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>I sometime wonder if the second house should be appointed by some sort of random draft that would hopefully reflect the makeup of the nation.
William F. Buckley used to say he'd rather be governed by a random selection of 100 names from the Boston phone book than the faculty at Harvard.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
