2007-02-14 21:16:55 · 7 answers · asked by robbie a 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Why? Politicians already have to be accountable to voters...that's enough.
Besides who would determine the qualifications? Politicians? Lovely. The party in power would then be able to selectively exclude its main rivals from taking power. What a mess!
2007-02-14 21:21:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. However most of our politicians are overeducated idiots who don't have a clue about the real world as they were groomed to go to their Ivy League schools, went through, got out maybe were lawyers for a couple years and then went in to politics.
While the education doesn't disqualify one from being able to make policy, "the everyman" would be refreshing. Not like some factory worker or something because that would be a little out of his league, but people who've been successful in business, and not just because they came up rich. Because they worked hard to get where they are, are self made, understand that lower taxes means more employees and thus more total tax revenue and a better economy (like we see now on a national level, yet here in Vermont we're screwed despite the fact that these liberals have got us paying the highest taxes per capita in the nation). People who've lived in the real world, not in the bubble that the usual elites live in, and know what real people want because they've been there (smaller government, out of their business, cut the wasteful entitlements so the working poor can stop watching the non-working lazy poor who choose not to work have better lives).
I think you intended to go the other way with your question, but your question ignores the fact that most of those holding elected office (nationally especially) are highly educated. But "educated" is crap anyway. You can be an idiot and just do work that is assigned to you and be "educated", but there are plenty of other people who are much smarter who don't have an "education" for one reason or another. I know people without high school educations who own their own stores because they worked hard for a handful of years, managed money well.
So if "education" is a qualification you think is necessary, you don't have anything to worry about. You should be more concerned about the life someone led to achieve that "education", and whether it allows them to understand your situation in order to actually serve you.
2007-02-15 05:27:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe so. Politicians are supposed to craft laws and determine what is legally best for their constituents. How can they do this if they do not have the basic education that will enable them to know and understand the implications (moral, legal, financial, social, etc) of their actions and their legal boundaries? They may have good intentions to serve people and they may have a big heart but if their actions violate national or local laws then the best of intentions will never stand in any court of law.
Politics is not merely popularity or who has the biggest heart for others. Unfortunately, in my country, popular actors and sports personalities get elected because of sheer popularity. When they are in office, they are unable to make good laws or determine projects and activities for their constituents or address the needs of the people because they do not have the basic knowledge and skills for this kind of work. If they had at least related education, then they would be able to do what is expected of them.
2007-02-15 05:54:31 · answer #3 · answered by back stabbed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is the education for Politics. it is undergraduate and postgraduate studies introduced by University of madras. But politics need a real qualification where they needs a place for people. The middle class and high class not entered into the poll booth. They has to enter the poll booth or enter into politics, to clear the **** in politics.
2007-02-15 05:19:39 · answer #4 · answered by JJ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - We need politicians in the same way we need employees of the job-centre, UK Revenue and Customs and NHS direct - it gives them something to occupy their little brains and keeps them off the unemployment lines. Nobody cares or even notices if they go on strike HAHA.
2007-02-15 05:24:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course there shouldbe a specific qualification.education changes a persons perspective alot.bihar is one result of uneducated politicians .
2007-02-15 10:57:55 · answer #6 · answered by mots 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a greedy bigot....or ..someone for real like RUDY G. !!!!!!
2007-02-15 05:19:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋