2006-07-24 07:51:49 · 13 answers · asked by him 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Civic Participation
It depends on what you call corruption? Firstly, I wonder how many employees within the various council housing departments are homeless? My second point is not so much about corruption more like downright scandalous! There are people begging on the streets of our major cities, people living in cardboard boxes and cars, whole families living in filthy rat-ridden hostels and people eating from rubbish bins.... probably the bins at the Town Hall, because they are hungry, unemployed and not likely to become employed because they have no fixed abode. In the meantime, at the town Hall they are having a super duper banquet to celebrate the flowering of the hanging baskets in the City centre. They arrive in convoys of taxis.... paid for by the tax payer. They eat expensive food and drink expensive wine - all night long.... Whilst outside, not 50 yards from them, people are fighting to survive! Like I said, it's not corruption in the sense that you mean but it's morally corrupt. Don't you agree?
2006-07-26 14:58:33 · answer #1 · answered by Jan D 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
TRY THIS
Political & Government Corruption. Political Donations & Control
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2006-07-24 14:55:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wounded Knee and Watergate...just to name a couple. There are countless others that will fill these pages. I have one where a treaty in 1868 mentioned peace and taking care of Natives' education, welfare and health...I see quite a few Natives without their reserves anymore...what's that? Or social health services are now asking for private insurance from them, next they'll alleviate their federal schools and charge for education. I know that if they start a casino...their land gets taken away..loopholes for the government I guess. But, what happened to those treaties? That's a good question to ask next. This broadens the scenario from local to international.
2006-07-24 16:31:01 · answer #3 · answered by gogramma 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some years ago Birmingham council hushed up a housing benefit fraud - an African woman was rejecting white applications and pushing through black applications (ethnicity on the application form) around 2000/2001
2006-07-27 09:02:00 · answer #4 · answered by heath 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We had a lot of police corruption in the local precinct - nicknamed the Dirty 30. (NYC)
They would ransack apartments looking for drugs and money.
There eventually was a total overhaul of department staff.
2006-07-28 06:18:41 · answer #5 · answered by lrad1952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out the Clay Cross affair and the Westminster housing scandal as two of the best in the last forty years.
2006-07-24 16:10:23 · answer #6 · answered by Jellicoe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Except for local legitamate residents of Dallas not being able to obtain things like housing and assistance because it looks better to help people from Katrina than their own homeless and those losing their homes?
2006-07-24 15:15:15 · answer #7 · answered by Crossroads Keeper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I took my local council to court. It went to the House of Lords and I won. It cost council tens of thousands in legal fees.
2006-07-24 15:02:45 · answer #8 · answered by Valli 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
government corruption of humanity
2006-07-28 04:49:54 · answer #9 · answered by moon walker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sprindale AR bid biz has a grip on the local police dept. to avoid illegal aliens. Heard it from cops that quit!
2006-07-24 21:44:13 · answer #10 · answered by tripledigit67 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋