Real Kato Blog: Eating Your Own Dog Food

New rules... if only I were king.

I read recently that 75% of the members of Congress get professional tax preparers to do their taxes.

I think it's about time we introduced some "eat your own dog food" rules in this country. For instance, members of Congress, who write all the onerous and difficult-to-understand tax laws in this country, should be required to fill out their own tax returns. Same for the President and Vice President.

People who serve on local school boards should have to eat public school lunches every day. (I'll avoid making the obvious joke about "dog food".) Airline executives should have to eat airplane food every day. Fast food company executives and their families should have to eat at their own restaurants every day.

DOT engineers should have to drive in rush hour every day, on the most congested roads in town. Microsoft software engineers should have to use Windows without any third-party antivirus software on their own personal computers. And the engineers who design cell phones with text messaging should have to do all their typing on cell phone keypads.

Airline baggage handlers should have to send their own clothes on airplane trips once every month. Postal workers should have to send their own valuable and fragile possessions through the mail once a month. And whoever my newspaper delivery person is, the one who ignores my clearly-marked newspaper box and instead leaves the paper to get soaked in the rain on my driveway, that person should have all of their reading material get run through a cycle in a dishwasher, and then get driven over several times.

I just wish people would care about stuff they produce, as if it were something they themselves were going to consume. It seems like people just aren't very conscientious any more. How did it come to this?

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Comment #1 from Noelle (Guest)
2006 Apr 18 - 9:57 am : #

I read someplace that Ray Croc's successor - the young, dead former CEO of McDonalds, ate a McDonalds item every day. He died at 44 of something obvious like Colon cancer.

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