faith in government?

Question

how can people have any faith in their government when they are mostly overwight morally corrupt, couldnt give a straight answer heads on high. do all the excellent people get stolen to the private sector, medicene and so on?

thanks to cantcu and i respect and take on board your contribution to my question

Answer 1

What is at the heart of your question and others like it on this site is that the public mistrust their leaders. This is an old chestnut that goes back centuries, if not milleniums. The Roman diarist Seneca in 54AD was complaining about this problem of trust.

I can't help feeling, like may of you, that the corridors of power is a labrynthine super structure stretching across boundaries we normally think are defined by our national identity, our religion and our culture. It is a feeling that tends to influence the way we view our local presidents and governors as being simply 'pawns of' or 'manipulators for' a new global elite that big commerce has created since industrialisation swept the world into a new era of political control.

So many conspiracy theories, from the sublime to the ridiculous, festoon the internet with lurid descriptions of a world hidden from view populated by the so called 100, 000 or so industrial/political presidents. We are left in no doubt by some authors like Brzezinski, John Chuckman, Professor James Petras, Jeff Faux, Dan Russell, Leonard Horowitz, Alfred McCoy that the new global elite is a phenomenom hosting the most extraordinary system of transnational raw power that we can no longer really perceive local government as a relevant source of authority, especially since the advent of the super fast highway of communication and computerisation in the 80's. These latter technological considerations, coupled with their unimagineable contribution to the escalation of military/psychop hardware, surveillance systems, commerce driven education and social welfare systems, has changed forever the meaning of the word 'politics'.

Infact, 'politics' or 'public policy' has never really quite lived up to it's name as an appropriate word to describe the activity or mission of a good democratic government but since the advent of an increasingly powerful transnational political order the public have increasingly seen their smallholding in public policy being whittled down to a system of 'pay your tax and shut up'.

Personally I have more faith in Startrek Enterprise than in Government when it comes to accountability. The present Government has clearly demonstrated it had no desire whatsoever to be accountable to the public when it took our nation into conflict with people in the Middle East. This single act of barbarism has demonstrated its allegiance and subservience to foreign powers whose corridors of power have labrynthine connections via MI6 etal to our ministers and operatives at Whitehall and Westminster.

We will never know the full scale of complicity between national Governments and Global Corporations but my guess is that we will definately witness an erosion of civil liberties and a greater instance of State oligarchy intruding upon our lives. Governments around the world are selling their nation's assets, real estate and commercial systems to the highest bidder in the global marketplace and it is a buyer's market worth trillions of dollars.

Answer 2

Because the private sector is corrupt as well and in large are the reason our government is so corrupt.

I don't believe a thing that Bush has said as he can't open his mouth without lying.

His past 2 was he finally admitted that we had secret CIA prison camps in other countries so he could torture people and hold them without going by the Geneva Conventions or have any scrutiny by the US Supreme Court.

His lying about Iran, scaring America, and had many people, even some numb one here, talking about attacking Iran when they were only doing what they were allowed to do under the NPT. Bush was crying wolf again, lying about their nuclear power program!

I have never seen a more corrupt government and it starts at the top. I see that Ford Motor's is about to lay off 1/3 of their workforce. Lets see if they lay off 1/3 of the incompetents running the company who makes millions a year!

Here is your idiot president, who has been trying to get us into a war with Iran, and now is talking about Hezbollah, who have done NOTHING to us since 1983!!

U.N. Inspectors Dispute Iran Report By House Panel
Paper on Nuclear Aims Called Dishonest

By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 14, 2006; Page A17

U.N. inspectors investigating Iran's nuclear program angrily complained to the Bush administration and to a Republican congressman yesterday about a recent House committee report on Iran's capabilities, calling parts of the document "outrageous and dishonest" and offering evidence to refute its central claims.

Officials of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency said in a letter that the report contained some "erroneous, misleading and unsubstantiated statements." The letter, signed by a senior director at the agency, was addressed to Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), chairman of the House intelligence committee, which issued the report. A copy was hand-delivered to Gregory L. Schulte, the U.S. ambassador to the IAEA in Vienna.


U.N. inspectors sent a letter criticizing the report to the panel's chairman, Rep. Peter Hoekstra. (Handout - Getty Images)

Related Document
Letter (pdf): IAEA officials say report contained some "erroneous, misleading and unsubstantiated statements."


The IAEA openly clashed with the Bush administration on pre-war assessments of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Relations all but collapsed when the agency revealed that the White House had based some allegations about an Iraqi nuclear program on forged documents.

After no such weapons were found in Iraq, the IAEA came under additional criticism for taking a cautious approach on Iran, which the White House says is trying to build nuclear weapons in secret. At one point, the administration orchestrated a campaign to remove the IAEA's director general, Mohamed ElBaradei. It failed, and he won the Nobel Peace Prize last year.

Yesterday's letter, a copy of which was provided to The Washington Post, was the first time the IAEA has publicly disputed U.S. allegations about its Iran investigation. The agency noted five major errors in the committee's 29-page report, which said Iran's nuclear capabilities are more advanced than either the IAEA or U.S. intelligence has shown.

Among the committee's assertions is that Iran is producing weapons-grade uranium at its facility in the town of Natanz. The IAEA called that "incorrect," noting that weapons-grade uranium is enriched to a level of 90 percent or more. Iran has enriched uranium to 3.5 percent under IAEA monitoring.

BUSH IS DANGEROUS AND A CHRONIC LIAR!!

Answer 3

We just vote for these people to run our governments but have no faith in them. I would not trust them to stand on the side of a road and count passing cars.

Answer 4

the forms of human beings who place their "faith" in government are those that have their social gathering of selection in capacity. working example, liberal celebrities are pledging their servitude to the president, whilst whilst the Republicans had management in Congress & the White domicile the conservative celebrities have been appearing like the Republicans can do no incorrect. we've misplaced touch with our dissenting custom, and the countercultural values that marked the final 40 years of the 20 th Century. it style of sounds like purely Libertarians fairly carry those values.

Answer 5

You make the critical error of assuming there are "good" people....who do you think is giving the money to buy off our politicians...."good" people or the guy living in the gated community down the road from yours??

Answer 6

The most recent governments in the US and UK have taken lies and bull sh it to a new level, i have never seen such a lack of respect for the people that have elected them, it is unforgivable.

Answer 7

because it is all i have.

i don't have the resources, so i must have faith. that is always the choice we make. i have faith that things will continue improving if we wish it. we've already come so far... do you not see that?

i do not wish to go cry in the corner with you. that is always an option too, and it usually sucks.

Answer 8

Being in Governemnt should be like jury service, you get assigned to it for a year. Anyone who wants to be in power should be prevented from getting there.

Answer 9

look there are people in govt who are really trying for things to be better,lets stop being so pesimistic all the time.

Answer 10

You need some entrocalm for your verbal diarrohia