I believe all politicians should go through the following period of training before they were allowed to sit in parliament. They should spend three years in a low paid job and have to provide for their families from those wages alone. They would not be allowed access to any money they already owned or to take out a loan on the strength of their other money. This would do two important things; it would mean they learnt how to budget money and they would also understand what ordinary people go through. Then they might just be fit to govern for the benefit of all.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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