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Is your representative professional?
Watching tree surgeons deal with the big oak branch that’s been dangling over my garage like the sword of Damocles since storm Darragh, I was reminded how much more professional some working people are than some politicians and those around them.
They told me to stay indoors for my own safety, and to close the door so I would not get sawdust in the house. They took their time looking at the problem from every angle before donning safety gear and very cautiously going about their work, careful to make sure that no part of the branch fell onto my garage roof.
Yet these are not timorous men. It takes guts to climb high in a tree, particularly one that is in an unsafe condition. It takes fortitude to do it in all weathers, and to come out whenever needed. These are what I call real professionals, unlike posturing politicians.
Many politicians are not professionals. Not that you would want them all to be members of a profession when elected — we need them to be representative, after all — but professionalism is an attitude. Politicians in a democracy should have one purpose: to benefit the people.
Politicians often do not include in their bills any way to measure the success of their measures, or funding to measure the before and after. Presumably this is so that they can claim success even when it is not justified. Good business…