Imagine if

Originally posted by Tom Koltai at 05:53PM (EST) on April 30, 2009

Wouldn’t it be interesting if the current push for a global world government actually went to the country with the most votes.

As an economist, I am enamoured of the concept of a united world central government overseeing that all people of the world are treated with respect, equally, fairly and without favour.

Unfortunately, if it were based on a fair and democratic voting process it would probably never come to pass – Why? – Because obviously the outcome would result in a socialist existence.

Because obviously the first action of the global Government, would be to make all decisions public referendums.

And the next action would be to outlaw paid lobbyist access to the members.

Every decision would be made by the public with a 24 hour per day rolling poll.

Think about it – it would be extremely cheap to run.
There would be just one chap – and he would speak on behalf of the entire world.

All interaction with the OWG (Our World Government) would be through the internet.

Any person could nominate an issue to vote on.

Issues would be passed or rejected by global voluntary vote. Those that were interested would vote, those that weren’t, wouldn’t.

Think of it as Government by Ebay. If you like it – bid. If you don’t like the motion… vote no and keep looking.

All those in favour of file sharing ----- tick here.
All those in favour of putting file sharers in jail ------ tick here.......
All those in favour of removing all guns and ammunition out of Somalia ------- tick here.
All those in favour of sending aid and education to Somalia -------- tick here
All those in favour of providing homes for all the homeless ------ tick here (=$3.00 extra tax per wk)
All those in favour of leaving the homeless in the street ----- tick here.

The result of such an experiment would be interesting.

Cartels would disappear overnight.
Pork Barreling would disappear.
Business that depended on Government subsidies would fail unless the public recognized and approved those subsidies.

There would of course have to be one more regulation to ensure that no one country could rape and pillage its neighbours…..

What is made here – stays here – and what isn’t made here doesn’t come here (Sounds harsh but it will encourage jobs and security for all countries, not just a few).

Which of course is the old import/export Tariff regime. So possibly, the Global Government needs to be independent state governments first.