I hope some of you find this as funny and shocking as I do... talk about revisionism!  I remember 1975 pretty well, and even you young'uns know the meaning of the song pretty clearly.  Now this blogger seems to think we should have someone just step in to fire the U.S. government and start again...  with China's help, perhaps? Or Putin?  Oy!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/01/australia-had-a-government-shutdown-once-it-ended-with-the-queen-firing-everyone-in-parliament/