DBG, it amazes me that you love to espouse communistic ideals, but scoff at the idea of a respectable living in labor. You have not learned, either due to your sex, personality, or both, that the man/woman in a meeting with the most calouses on their hands will command and receive the greatest respect.

One of the major problems with politicians these days, particularly in the most "progressive" states, is that they have not been forced to make an honest living. You cannot represent the people if you have not walked in their shoes. And you cannot understand how to regulate business if you have not been in business. Of course I speak in general terms. But how can one graduate college, go straight into a government job, and claim to be representative of the people?