Have we all just become indifferent? Scandal after scandal and nobody loses their jobs and we just watch. People in power are not held to any standard it seems and i have watched where people failed to do their job or made huge mistakes and miscalculations and instead of losing their jobs they were rewarded. If a guy working in a factory is late or not doing his job he loses it and if not he is DEFINITELY reprimanded but people in power seem to be able to do what they want without fear or repercussions. What is wrong with us as voters, as taxpayers,as citizens?
2006-10-24 08:54:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
we have tried in the past and got crushed, miners strike for example, people just want to get by and hope they get lucky one day. this country is finished.
2006-10-24 08:59:02 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Federal, state,and local governments are loaded with con artists. Sometimes, when one gets caught in an illegal scheme, he'll say, "I take full responsibility for my actions." But people like him seldom incur any consequences. His friends, and cronys, in the halls of justice do not hold his feet to the fire.
What's wrong with us is that too many people are too busy earning a living and raising a family to attempt an exercise in futility aimed at corruption in either the private sector or the public sector. In effect, they're saying, "I can't march on the capitol. I've gotta wotk that day. Besides, what good will it do?" Or,In the private sector, "If I talk to the boss about what's going on around here, I'll be a former employee"
And, yes, too many people ard just too fat, dumb and happy with the status quo. Too lazy, too apathetic, too timid.
2006-10-24 09:25:44 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice rant.
America has been here for 230 years and for 230 years there have been scandals and political bickering.
Many of the "scandals" today are being fabricated by people opposed to the current party in power.
-Aztec276
2006-10-24 09:05:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
SS DD. Nothing's changed except the amount of information you have about it. Until basically Vietnam and Watergate, our government more or less acted with impunity without fear of what they were doing reaching a mass audience. It was all kept in house. Because the internet and insane proliferation of mass media, everybody knows everything that happens almost instantaneously.
2006-10-24 10:07:02 · answer #4 · answered by Mark M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"...like in the past"?
You're proposing that there was such a thing as "the good old days". There weren't any "good old days". What you're describing has been with us from time immemorial. It's part of the human condition - not that we should just lie down and accept it, mind you.
2006-10-24 08:59:05 · answer #5 · answered by Walter Ridgeley 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Feaer. Acquiescence. Moral turpitude. Apathy. Evil. Callow hearts. This will not go on for much longer.
2006-10-24 08:57:07 · answer #6 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Voting season is upon us.. All these adds from candidates who are going to change this. I think there is one prerequisite to being a politician..
A big stinkin con liar. I do like our president though.
2006-10-24 09:06:36 · answer #7 · answered by mr.longshot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are scared of the consequences of speaking out.
2006-10-24 09:00:09 · answer #8 · answered by michelle112785 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋