Why waste billions on elections when you can just do this?

There was a number floating around today about the total cost of Tuesday's election.

Six billion dollars.

For that money, you'll either have corporate bum-boy Romney or corporate bum-boy lite Obama for President the next four years. Either way it'll be government by corporate bum-boy, for the benefit of the corporations and the 1%ers who own them.

Meanwhile, over in Egypt that country's eight million strong Coptic Christian community elected themselves a new pope today. A blindfolded kid picked a name out of a goldfish bowl.

Total cost? Well under five bucks for both the bowl and the blindfold.

I'm thinking that system would work just as well in US politics. Throw the names of the contenders in a hat, have a blindfolded kid pick the winner.

Done!

Six billions saved, which you can throw against the deficit right away.

Maybe do a reality series on how the kid gets selected. That could be a revenue generator too.

"President Picker."

By God that's got a ring to it. How about a spin-off; "President Picker's Apprentice."

I think we're onto something here folks! Wonder if I can interest Trump in putting up the seed capital...