[pp.int.general] This year, I'm voting against representative democracy.

[Richard Stallman]

In the US, most elected officials are indeed professionals, in the
sense that they are paid (indirectly somehow by businesses) to enact
laws (for those businesses).

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
  Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call