...and the bad ones just make all politicians look bad?
2007-10-19 14:12:47 · 11 answers · asked by Senator D*L*P™ 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think it's just an excuse that people use when they don't want to be bothered learning about candidates and their legislative history.
Admittedly, there have been a good number of scandals, but to give up and say they are all bad is just laziness.
2007-10-19 14:43:53 · answer #1 · answered by oohhbother 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Despite some of the corruption. America is still the greatest country ever.
We have checks and balances and have due process.
Our forefathers had foresight.
Actually because the coruption is brought to light and dealt with is good. Nixon for example. In America no one is above the law.
2007-10-19 21:56:35 · answer #2 · answered by tennessee 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
When hasn't a politician been swayed by money? They all answer to the special interests that got them elected. The most corrupt is the recent power-grab by George Soros and his MoveOn.org cronies. The congressmen/women who he put in place knew where to go for funding. The problem is that they didn't plan on selling their souls as well.
TO SUPER MAN: The only people unaccounted for are generally independents. Voting for a third party candidate is just as good as assuring victory to Hilary, The Dragon Lady! If you like a tax and spend platform then she is just what you've been waiting for.
2007-10-19 21:24:58 · answer #3 · answered by Dan K 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
As long as The laws can have unrelated items attacked to them coruption will control the law making process. If you with to get money out of pollitics require EACH "Good Idea" to stand on its own merrit. The lobbyists aren't rich enough to pay off everyone!
2007-10-19 21:25:28 · answer #4 · answered by viablerenewables 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Both sides , Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Why would a millionaire want the job ? Civic duty ? Or just power !?
2007-10-19 21:28:46 · answer #5 · answered by J D 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
CORRUPTION! They're all Flim Flam Men!
They make speeches about they must have taxes, and every politician knows what is being done in Alaska. Alaska Pays all their residents with earth rights and doesn’t tax their residents. This makes the politicians liars!
They make speeches to get elected and make promises about what they will do for us. They say nothing about getting every dime of lobby money to do what big biz wants that’s opposite what they promised you they would do. That makes them cheats!
They stole your grandmother’s retirement money from SS. Now you face getting nothing for your SS payments. That makes them thieves!
They tax us, but they know the foreign companies pay no taxes on the goods they sell here. The goods are sold then bought on paper in a foreign port to skate the tax laws. Thus eliminating their profit on paper to cheat the US out of the taxes they owe. This makes them backstabbers!
They take lobby money to put earmarks and pork in every law that passes their desk. Then they do photo ops, and news clips to promote themselves as doing something good for us and America. So they corkscrew us!
They make back room deals and give our tax money to foreigners who build factories with our money. Then they write laws that send our jobs overseas. This makes them dirty dealers!
So lets total all this up. They lie, cheat, steal, backstab, corkscrew, and dirty deal. HELL they're Flim Flam Men! Just like in the George C. Scott movie “ The Flim Flam Man”!
They are called the “ Honorable” Senator or Representative. Hell Flim Flam Men have NO honor what so ever! They’re crooks, criminals for God’s sake!
The BBC has film of ALL of them going in and out of Abramoff’s restaurant. That’s THE place in DC to get loaded with lobby money. The BBC has been running this story, and trying to get the US media to run it too. The US media refuses to run the story.
It’s time to take America back! Get registered! VOTE! Vote for anyone that’s not a Democrat or a Republican. They have ALL the power and ALL the control. They must bear ALL the responsibility for their gross mismanagement, abysmally poor judgment, lies, cheating, thefts, back stabs, corkscrews, and dirty deals! It’s time to put THEM in the unemployment line!
2007-10-19 21:23:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
YES...The majority are bad. America has become the best government money can buy.
Its a fact when profits are put ahead of people, laws enacted generally will reflect the level of corruption of a country.
The fact that Bush remains un-impeached speaks volumes about how corrupt our government is.
2007-10-19 21:17:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Yes, I do. I can't believe they are spending 1 billion dollars on this election! Think what that money could do for the poor.
2007-10-19 21:39:19 · answer #8 · answered by ? 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
well... yes... but I mean it seems to be human nature to a degree...
politics at it's core is dealing with power... and power corrupts...
and there is corrpution in almost every field, to some degree...
2007-10-19 21:21:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes.
2007-10-19 21:21:23 · answer #10 · answered by Mitchell 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋