The Dole

If I were queen of the world, I would put our most valuable people on the dole. Doctors, nurses, scientists, artists, writers, statesmen, - anyone who met rather stringent standards of excellence would be put on a very, very generous flat salary. They could just do their work without worrying about how to live, filling out forms to justify themselves, falling into a mean trap of medicare fraud, publishing bad research, or taking lobbyist lagniappe (just learned this word from NYTimes Ethicist Column).

Too many lazy people are working the system, although there are fewer places to find work every day.