What is wrong with our government? seriously, give me some short and to the point answers?

Question

Yes, I know it's still the best thing going, and I am proud to be American. But there are flaws...what are the biggest ones in your opinion??

Answer 1

I agree with your first answer. I also believe that our government forgot about the middle class, the elderly, and its veterans. I believe that the Congress and the Senate should be paid minimum wages, and only the hours that they actually work. Then and only then I bet they'll get things done. There is too much affiliations to political parties. They are more worried about finding dirt on each other than finding a solution to problems......like finding a way pay for elderly prescriptions.

Answer 2

1. The US government spends nearly $500billion on millatary, the whole world spends up to $1trillion so the US spends half of that. They must either be plotting to make a US empire, or are scared of alien invasion.
2. The US government has over 9,000 nuclear weapons, each with the power to destroy a whole city.
3. The US government bosses other countries around and interferes a lot. For examples:
They have sent money to anti UIC groups in Somalia because they don't want the UIC in charge, its not because they are bothered about the Somali civil war.
They tested two hydro bombs in the marshall islands which turned out worse than they expected and killed one person and created radiation fallout. (in the 50's)
4.The US government uses the UN as a diplomatic tool.
5. The US government only send troops to places there bothered about, they ave hardly any troops helping in UN peacekeeping missions and I know they have none in the D.R.Congo peacekeeping mission.
6. The US government led by George Bush is for Executions. A 17 year old once said before he was executed, 'Is it right for us to tell our children, killing is sometimes ok?'. It is hypocritacle to kill someone because they killed someone ese. Also out of the about 70 executions that happen in a year a few must be innocent.
And many more reasons.

Answer 3

A percentage of government officials are focused on stealing as much as they can, getting them self promoted/reelected; and 3rd - (and to them, most important) seeing to it that other government officials DO NOT SUCCEED at anything.

I'm 54. Worked for state government for 31 years. As a consultant, was sent into agencies to clean up ......messes. Sometimes the Agency's Directors would ask us to come in. Sometimes, the Governor would order us in because of bad press about an agency.

There is nothing but infighting that goes on behind the closed doors. And some officials are so scared of getting caught at doing something wrong, they tell their employees to "just sit there, and do NOTHING!". And for this, they get promoted.

Answer 4

Yes, there are flaw. Of course we must realize that money runs the world. Big corporations and people with power, crookedness, deception, lies, manipulation. Yes we have the best country in the world and yes most other countries don't like the USA, but they all want to come here to live because of freedom and MONEY. This minted bill ids the root of all evil.

Answer 5

Our 'public servants' have not been observing the SERVE part of public service.From top to bottom,they have become the New Aristocracy.They cannot be impeached,fired,brought up on charges,much less be arrested.It would be an embarrassment.A loss of face.Day in and day out,the practice of 'Plausible Deniability'aka CYA is the exercise most worked on.Term limits might work.Job performance evaluations.Trial periods--6mos.No headway?;down the road.Have spares/replacements waiting in the warm up pen.If they insist on pay commensurate with private industry,they should abide by the same rules of job security.If you DO your job,you get to keep it.No performance?No job.They also should pay strict attention to the meaning of democracy;Rule by the ruled,Majority rule,etc.

Answer 6

I think there are many problems... but many of them come from one central issue...

the American public doesn't pay attention to what the politicians are DOING... but only what they SAY

and in the end... we vote them in... and they make the rules...

if we didn't vote in people that have already made MANY mistakes... I think many of the future mistakes could be avoided (and would have been avoided)...

and this goes for both parties...

the people are the watchdog... and they aren't doing a very good job...

do you really think that politicians would do half the things they do if they thought that 50 percent of the population was paying attention? they know the majority aren't paying any real attention to anything other than "buzz issues" like welfare or immigration...

Answer 7

It is the best, but there are flaws, and will always be. One thing is all of the fighting between parties, they can't focus on what's important because they're too busy trying to out-do each other.

Answer 8

"the yank race" is a melting pot, as we want to call it. Our way of existence is and continually has been based on many distinctive ethnic communities. unlawful immigrants are a topic, yet once you quit legal immigrants from coming, you're changing American values and way of existence. united states has continually been a place for categories of persons back. Even interior the colonies, it wasn`t merely English human beings yet many distinctive races and religions. it is united states.

Answer 9

1. Corporate influence in public policy.
2. Politicians who spend more effort getting/staying elected than running the country.

Answer 10

Greed