Are our political leaders sincere about the concerns of common man?

Question

One sees total chaos in world affairs and energy is misused/wasted on wrong priorities by all political leaders who are in charge of the major countries of the world.

Answer 1

No they are not concerned about the common person. However, if the common people demand changes in policies and take an active role in their governments operations (by voting, writing letters, demonstrating, etc.) then they can have a positive influence on the governments actions!

Answer 2

This is a quasi-answerable question, I'll give you what I think,
which is aimed at reasonable logic and employing family values.

Many young politicians start out with lofty goals, and political
ideals, which is fine, as far as that goes, but, when you temper all
that with reality, their perceptions of realities may become
askew, or slanted toward one political party or the other, or something else.
For example, a young representative gets elected into office,
goes to Washington, D.C. to complete his service (US level)
and finds out he can't get any of his concerns from his constituency passed.
He isn't part of the "good old boy" network, and unless he doesn't
"play ball" along with the others, he won't be selected to serve as first chair or chairman, and won't wield the clout and authority
that first chair brings with it.
So he is pulled between what his constituents want, and what
the lobbyists want (special interests) and most of the time
he cannot get important legislation passed for his Congressional
District, because he hasn't adjusted to the ways of the
"Good Old Boy" network, and until he does, he won't get anything he wants passed by committee, and then into law, for the President to sign.

Then what happens is the young politician becomes
disenchanted with his situation, and goes through a period of
withdrawal from the rest of the world.
After that, he begins to realize how tough it actually is to get
anything done, inside the Washington, D.C. beltways, and soon
he succumbs to the "Washington, D.C. attitude", and joins the
"good old boy" network, and begins pork-barrel hearings to be
approved for legislation.
This is a microcosm of how the congress addresses all the
issues of the day, many old issues, some new.
The congress has been analogous to a giant wheel turning
that grinds so fine that you can barely see the wheel turning.

Unfortunately, some of the issues that need to be addressed immediately, the war in Iraq, and beefing up the US military
presence what the generals call plus up, spending more money on guns and munitions and their support units(8 hundred billion
dollars spent so far, with no end in sight.)
4-star generals who swear that all military helmets have been
retro-fitted, and are now ready for combat, same with wearable
body armor for the US military (all combatant units) and sufficient
chassis armor (under for all military(US) Humvees, the USA has
sustained many casualties from IED (improvised explosive devices) and which could have been avoided had all the military
rolling stock been properly fitted out with their chassis armor

Concerns for the common man? Not in today's US political
landscape, there is too much greed or hubris demonstrated
by those few per cent who has all the money and wealth.
These aren't the nouveau riche, either, there are many
entrepreneurs out there, who have made successes of themselves, and also realize how tough it is to get important
legislation passed.

No, I'm thinking that much of the USA's political influence
comes from the Bildeberg Commission, and the Tri-lateral
Commission, and the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
as they have shown over the years that they react to world events, quietly, behind the scenes, and lets our President do all the vocalizing.
This is called back room control, and thats how they want it.
Although if you asked any of their members, they would say
we follow the doctrine of the US and it's Constitution, as far
as government is concerned.
None of them would ever admit to any one of them being in control, but make no mistake, their scythe wields a wide swath,
with just one cut.

So, any young person who wants to follow a career path of political science, be prepared for some pretty heavy invective,
as present politicians have mucked up the good name of
being a good and decent politician, none of them are
statesmen, know nothing about statecraft, just how much
money and power is in it for them.

You can analyze all 100 of the US senators and not find any real
statesmen, and with the 435 representatives in the House, how
many really have a serious perception about who the people really are? And what the people's needs truthfully are.

No one said being a good politician is a cake walk, or a run down a sunny beach, its actually a lot of reading, listening, talking
and observing in helping to craft a better America, and it takes a lot of debate and compromise, but it goes with the territory, and if
it gets too hot in the kitchen, leave, and let someone else have a crack at it.

Thats my message, I hope it helps, remember. its one man's
opinion. Good luck



Donald H. Sites
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Answer 3

I believe that greed and corruption drive most of the world leaders in today's world. The love of money is the root of all evil, It's difficult to be evil and think of others at the same time. There are a few good men in leadership positions, and I'll let you be the judge of who, but rarely are they heard. The media doesn't report the efforts of good men because doing the right thing is not newsworthy! Therefore, hardly is their message heard or even their names or where they're from. Nothing.

Answer 4

Don't you hate being talked down to and ignored by our elected officials? Yet, if you read the answers to the open question regarding how to "fix" health care, their attitude is understandable, if not excusable.

The majority of responses basically just say health care should be free, or cheap, with no concern about where the money should come from, or what the effect would be on quality of care, or how it would impact medical research.

If we want to be taken seriously we have to be vocal, yes, but also informed and educated. What is the benefit of being vocal if you are just sharing your ignorance with a larger segment of the population!

Answer 5

do no longer they create it on themselves by skill of promising greater desirable than they are in a position to grant? I agree that there is a disconnect between our expectancies and certainty, yet they are those that say they'll carry out great-human feats interior the 1st place. Politicians, particularly the Presidential applicants, ought to grant particular plans for scrutiny earlier the election so we are in a position to work out if their claims are genuine looking. And it may be effective, because of the fact the Presidency is largely a administration place, for them to start putting a team mutually so we are in a position to get an thought of who would be attempting to end what. i do no longer think of it is punctiliously out of line for the generic public to anticipate some progression in government, particularly in spite of everything of the promise politicians make to be elected.

Answer 6

As long as the commons survive political leaders are happy. They promise to whom- the common man. They live because the commons vote them. How many commons say that they don't vote?
Sounds rubbish? This is how it goes on...... and the Nation lives.

Answer 7

There are so many "common men" in the world from all different walks of life, all different backgrounds, that it is totally ignorant to think that they all have a common agenda. How do you even know what the right priorities are?

Answer 8

In terms of economic condition and absolute economic mobility (the ability to grow your own income and wealth, as opposed to the ability to catch up to T. Boone Pickens no matter how much richer he becomes), things have never been better for the common man than they are in the United States in this decade. Yes the rich are richer, yes they're getting rich faster than the rest of us, but we are becoming rich at a faster pace than has ever been the case and we are moving up at all levels of the ladder at a faster pace than has ever been the case.

Answer 9

ans. is a big NO. They are following the ideology that nobody can rescue all the people so let us make us rich.

Answer 10

Some of them are and some of them aren't. It's pretty obvious that Bush is only interested in saving his own butt.