Working For Change

So many candidates and so little candid-ness. These candidates for presidency are calling for change, as if that's anything new. We have more change than we know what to do with - try a Mason jar or empty spring water jug. A visit to the bank would be easier and you'll get change wrapped in a sleeve.

These candidates for presidency all claim to be able to bring about change, but I think I have plenty. Apparently others do too, since the wait at the coin-counting machine is getting longer and longer. As a matter of fact, more people are needing to get rid of change these days. 

These candidates for presidency are even working for change. I guess all their wealth is going for those wonderfully cents-less ads and speeches. Can't we make these "stumps for chumps" less expensive for the poor guys working for change?

Wealthy candidates for political office are also nothing new in our history. Originally, public servants of this country were not paid for the honor of promoting its cause. They were expected to be established/semi-retired land owners and businessmen who didn't need money, only greater influence and/or privilege.

You could say that our forefathers truly worked for change in order to foster a fledgling nation's prosperity.

Plutocracy, government by the wealthy, is as familiar to U.S. as the faces of our presidents on our coin and currency. Perhaps the hope, of a candidate for presidency, that his face would someday grace the country's means of exchange was worth serving it gratis. Hey, maybe once again, candidates could be persuaded to enter into healthy competition for historic recognition.

In particular, free market devotees should be willing to accept political payment that features their own faces on "play money". They would continue to use "real money" to run for office and to pay their bills. In other words, they would give back to the country the presidents that truly worked for change while receiving pay in "money" whose posterity they would have a vested interest in securing.

Then, if our country benefited by their service, these same candidates and their posterity would also benefit from their "play money" being recognized as real someday. I don't see any reason why candidates who play the political game of monopoly should have a problem being paid with "play money" that miraculously, like their campaigns, could become the real thing.

God, I just love people who love themselves, not for their money, but on their money.

They have my vote.