Does it strike anyone else as odd that we (as a country) spend millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollar

Question

Does it strike anyone else as odd that we (as a country) spend millions, if no thundreds of millions of dollars on political campaigning, all while there are schools still moldering in New Orleans and kids without food and drug problems and everything else.
Why do we (as a society- made up of individuals like you and me) accept this?

Answer 1

Thats what I say, why dont the candidates give a large portion of their contributions to charity - Exactly

They all are talk and no action - ALL OF THEM

Answer 2

That´s the American Way. In the UK, with a parliamentary system, the maximum time allowed for political campaigning is six weeks. However the US generally is better off economically than the UK so you must be doing something right. As to New Orleans, anyone who builds below the level of the sea and relies on earthen levees to protect them ,needs their head examining. The French weren´t stupid. The part of the city that they built was virtually unaffected by Katrina. The drug problem in the US, or anywhere else for that matter,could be solved by imposing martial law for a short time, rounding up the bottom people in the drug trade and threatening them with heavy goal sentences unless they informed on the higher level people and so on. But of course this won´t happen as there is too much money to be made from corruption.

Answer 3

It should be criminal; the money comes from special interest groups, and the politician becomes their puppet. How fantastic it would be to have an accounting that went to schools, stopping abuse or any social program. Instead of commercials slamming the other guy, they would be lists of campaign contributions going to different organization. We accept it, because we cannot stop it.
Sad but true.

I just noticed all the thumbs down, must be a conservative sneaking around the truth.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

We're a country of excess. Why can we spend TRILLIONS of unbudgeted dollars on an obscene, unconstitutional, illegal, unjustified, immoral 'war' - but can't afford a few hundred billion to help those Americans who are disabled, disadvantaged, underprivileged, undereducated, elderly, unemployed, poor, hungry and homeless? How can we justify paying BILLIONS of dollars to government contractors such as Halliburton and the Carlyle Group - but then tell our valiant soldiers we have to cut their pay and benefits? How can we spend MILLIONS of political campaigns and still not find an honorable candidate?
-RKO- 09/06/07

Answer 6

As already stated, the politicians spend their own and not government money on campaigns. That's why the richest ones win, rather than the best ones.

Answer 7

because those giving the large amounts will want something in return at a later stage in time. The rich only give if they can get something in return.

Answer 8

Campaign money is not government money. That money is from private investors and sponsors. The government has nothing to do with that money.