Why Boehner Resigned

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Something very unpleasant is about to hit the fan and John Boehner is making an exit so that he does not have to take any heat for helping cause the disaster.  This I guarantee!

John Boehner never served as a delegate in any capacity. He was voted into office by voters who were looking for a messiah. Voters served Boehner. Boehner never served voters.

Did voters get short changed? No, serving government is what voters do. Basically voters relate to politicians in two different ways. They can worship them, as in place their faith in them, or they can insist that they serve as delegates.  There are no delegates in the House, the Senate or the Executive branch.

Voters and their leaders have something in common. Both are guided by self interest. Voters expect representatives to serve them but with the lack of a counter incentive leaders will make servants out of the general population. Boehner’s constituents served him well. They voted him into office over and over again. They got nothing in return. Boehner gained about everything a human being could possibly ask for. The voters made his lunch. He ate it. He is full and now he is leaving. This is the job the voters gave him so they got everything they bargained for, They will replace with someone who is about the same.

If Americans ever get tired of serving their politicians, they could give the Delegate Model of Representation a try.

The Delegate Model of Representation has never been used in the United States, with the exception of a few like Davy Crockett in the early 1800s. Crockett got voted out office of course.  Surely there are a few other exceptions but I don’t know of any.

“The delegate model of representation is a model of a representative democracy. In this model, constituents elect their representatives as delegates for their constituency. These delegates act only as a mouthpiece for the wishes of their constituency, and have no autonomy from the constituency.”  from, Deletate Model of Representation, wikipedia

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James Quillian independent scholar,free market economist,and teacher of natural law. Who is James Quillian? Certainly I am nobody special, Just a tireless academic and deep thinker. Besides that, I have broken the code with respect to economics and political science. Credentials? Nothing you would be impressed with. I am not a household name. It is hard to become famous writing that virtually no one in the country is genuinely not in touch with reality. But, if I did not do that, there would be no point in my broking the broken the code. If you read the blog, it is easy to see that there are just a few charts, no math and no quantitative analysis. That is not by accident. Given what I know, those items are completely useless. I do turn out to be highly adept at applying natural law. Natural law has predominance over any principles the social science comes up. By virtue of understanding natural law, I can debunk, in just a few sentences , any theory that calls for intervention by a government. My taking the time to understand the ins and outs of Keynes General Theory is about like expecting a chemistry student to completely grasp all that the alchemists of the middle ages thought they understood in efforts to turn base metals into goal. Keynesian theory clearly calls for complete objectivity. Government can only make political decisions. Keynesian techniques call for economic decisions. So, why go any further with that? Fantasy Free Economics is in a sense a lot like technical analysis. Technical analysis began with the premise that it was impossible to gain enough information studying fundamentals to gain a trading advantage. Study the behavior of investors instead. Unlike technical analysis, I don't use technical charts. What I understand are the incentives of different people and entities active in the economics arena. For example, there is no such thing as an incentive to serve with life in the aggregate. In the aggregate, only self interest applies. It is routinely assumed otherwise. That is highly unappealing. But, I am sorry. That is the way it is. I can accept that because I am genuinely in touch with reality. Step one in using Fantasy Free Economics is for me to understand just how little I really know. A highly credentialed economist may know 100 times what I do based on the standard dogma. Compare the knowledge each of us has compared to all there is to know and we both look like we know nothing at all. There is always more than we don't know than what we do know. I am humble enough to present myself on that basis. Why? That is the way it is. I am not bad at math. I have taught math. What I understand is when to use it and when to rely on something else. Math is useless in natural law so I don't use it. While others look at numbers, I am busy understanding the forces in nature that makes their numbers what they are. That gives me a clear advantage.

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