But your site itself appears to me to be useful and on-topic. For those that are not clever enough to find the link in Stacey’s comment, here it is:
http://www.theeconomicadvisor.com/” rel=”nofollow”>

You can see that lots of things don’t work as advertised. The rel=”nofollow” part is something inserted by WordPress that appears not to work. I suppose if I updated that would be fixed, undoubtedly something else would be broken, though.

I would like to put a link to your site on my blog roll if you want to do the same for mine. It would be a good way to build up both of our readerships.

thank you.

I am alarmed at the phrase “stockpiling weapons”. How large is a stockpile? If a group of 50 people own 25 assorted handguns and rifles, is that a stockpile?

If someone like Ted Nugent owns a gun rack with perhaps 25 or more rifles in it (I saw it on TV, so it must be true), is that a stockpile?

(And does that “vehemently opposed to illegal immigration” clause mean that DHS is in -favor- of illegal immigration? Or maybe they just think the border patrol is a bunch of extremists wasting taxpayer money?)

Regulations impose a cost to the government to administer the regulations, as well as on the regulated entities, who must prepare permit applications and so on. In this case, the Political class attracts people who demand stricter regulations for their particular hot-button issue, be it furry critters or vast expanses of ice-covered wilderness.

I understand, and agree with, your point about the “caring professions”, and the presumption that they attract people of certain personality predisposition. But the political predilection springs from the economic interest on whether your profession benefits from greater governmental attention or whether such attentions cause additional hardships.

When I was about 10, my mother tried to explain the whole business to me in terms of ‘white collar’ and ‘blue collar’. That didn’t help me in the slightest, and she freely admitted that it wasn’t even close to correct. The best she could do to explain the whole convoluted mess was this:
“The Liberals [Aussie right wing] are the ones you’d trust with your chequebook. Labor [Aussie left wing] are the ones you’d trust with your kids.”

You phrase the differentiation between left and right wings in an interesting way. What is particularly interesting is that most people agree with the basic differentiation, generally with subtly different labels, but see their side as the “good” side.

Based on the above, I’d draw the following conclusions (I’m excluding politicians, as evidently they comfortably fall on both sides of the spectrum)

This ‘political’ class would include teachers (pre-school through to tertiary), health care and social support professionals, emergency workers and aid workers. The ‘worker’ class would be those in manufacturing, farming, retail, banking and finance, amongst others. Does that sound about right?

If so, around here there is a well known and understood term for what you describe as the ‘political’ class. They’re called “the caring professions”. That is, they are professions where the primary goal is to “care for” or otherwise serve others.

In other words, your “political” class is made up of those people who make it their task in life to help *others*, while your “worker” class is made up of those people who make it their task in life to help *themselves*. A shallow observation? Maybe, but no more so than any other attempt to define complex and broad reaching schools of thought into a few sentences.

What a wonderful compliment it would be to be described as a caring professional. Perhaps that is I’ve always aspired towards those things which define a political lefty?