Can politicians ever be trustworthy?

Question

I think we ask too much of them to think they would join such a precarious profession without there being some payback.

Answer 1

If all the politicians and lawyers in the country were tossed into a Louisiana swamp, the pondscum would throw them all back!

Politicians know a good scam when they see it: promise gullible voters anything they want to hear, get elected, schmooze the special interests to stay elected, and retire on a lavish lifetime pension after spending your career sucking off the taxpayers' teat.
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Politics is not a 'precarious' profession. These bozos are coddled from the first day they get elected until the last day they take a breath. They're touted as "honorable" men and women, when - in fact - their greatest achievements were being bagmen for the lobbyists, special interest groups, and big business.

They manage to keep us distracted with bulls*it non-binding resolutions about gay marriage and flag-burning while they do absolutely nothing to address the real issues facing America (things like political corruption, the environment, and those in America who are hungry and homeless).

And THEY know as long as we're preoccupied, they can continue their gluttonous ways without ever being held accountable. So, while we worry about things like maxxed-out credit cards; $3.00-a-gallon fuel for our gas-guzzling $60,000 SUVs; Britney Spears' love life; Jacko's pedophilia; professional landscaping for our $300,000 home, and the latest rankings of our favorite football teams, nothing will change.

Politicians are just like lawyers: they're pigs wallowing around in the dirt (listen carefully to the words of that old Beatles' song, "Little Piggies" on the white album).

I wouldn't trust a politician to wipe my a** - because sure as Hell, while pretending to serve my interests, he'd be sticking it to me! -RKO-

Answer 2

A politician is a servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people. They habitually take advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return.

To be trustworthy you must have the essentials of Trust: integrity, ability and character.Traits unknown to bottom-feeders.
They are available to the highest bidders: money or a favor, offered or given to these parasites in a position of trust to influence that person's views or conduct.

Answer 3

Yah sometime but the probablity is around .07/1.

If you remember Gandhi was also a politician. And offcourse the Nelson mondela.
THe point is that when poltician became trustworthy then they remain no more politcians... they become statesman.

Answer 4

Whenever they first become a politician, they can be trustworthy for about 6 months... then they become corrupt, by the time they're up for election, they are corrupt as hell!

Answer 5

Everyone has a motive. you have to wonder what it is. Whats their goal.

In some cases I say yes, because often these people were born with money, they don't need the postion to make more money, so they are doing it for a cause.

Answer 6

They have to try to make every one happy and like them, very hard to do.
It is not so much that they lie, They just don't give all the information.

So , No.

Answer 7

You can only trust them if they are Democrats. Otherwise they are child-molesting scumbags of the worst sort.

Answer 8

NO...and the only trustworthy are kick out!

Answer 9

Politicians are no more, and no less, trustworthy as anyone else.

Answer 10

Of course. Any occupation is vulnerable to some sort of corruption.