British Election: peaceful revolution

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Originally Posted by InsaneApache

Name a finance minister who has run his own business and understands how the money supply works?

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Name a defense minister who was in the army and understands how the army works?
People still complain very often that politicians should have more experience in their fields.
And some often say that if politicians got paid more, you would get better experts from each field who would go into politics instead of going into business. It seems quite obvious that a lot of people expect politicians to come from the field they work in.

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Name a defense minister who was in the army and understands how the army works?

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Moshe Dayan.

Check. your move.

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Originally Posted by InsaneApache

Moshe Dayan.

Check. your move.

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Shoigu may not have been in the army, but he has been the minister of almost anything, so he gotta know how everything works.

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Originally Posted by Husar

People still complain very often that politicians should have more experience in their fields.
And some often say that if politicians got paid more, you would get better experts from each field who would go into politics instead of going into business. It seems quite obvious that a lot of people expect politicians to come from the field they work in.

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Well, that's a dud, because the banking sector boasts huge salaries and huge incompetence.