ROYALTY

Why in the twenty-first century does the idea still persist there are people whose accident of birth entitles them to a life of luxury provided them by the working citizens of an entire nation?  Royal blood consists of the same elements as anybody else's.  Granted many of these people have had hemophilia, a blood condition believed to be caused by many years of in-breeding.  That fact is an argument against the concept itself.  But, what to do with them?  The French people solved their problem many years ago with invention of the guillotine.  By our standards, their solution is a little extreme for our day and age.  British royalty are a pretty benign bunch.  They really don't do very much except travel to America and bask in the admiration of the dumbest segment of our population, sharing in the celebrity status of movie stars, pro football players and mass murderers.  They really should have their allowance cut off and given some useful job to do.  They would probably feel much better about themselves and turn out to be fairly nice people.