Why would many of you defend corporate greed and misuse of polical power?

Question

In the last 20+ years our elected officials have become less and less concerned and aware of what it is to live an average life, and we are supposed to think they will do something for us. Our education system is broke, our tax system is broke, homeland security is an oxymoron, and during elections these are issues that never get fixed, and now infra structure issues from neglect here at home, while we wage war on countries that haven't attacked us, and we can't find 1 guy, OBL, in 7 years. Why don't we give them all the boot this time and next time until they notice? This is our money they are wasting!

Answer 1

Thank you for an intelligent question that is not based on ranting.
it is a political problem, both parties, the president and staff, most governors ... Greed is the name of the game. They are almost 100% millionaires who have no concept of the way americans live and don't care.
posters and voters like the first answer, re-elect the same ole scam artists because the electors tell them what they want to hear and then when the truth gets too close they start stirring sh*t about someone else to distract attention away from themselves.
It is an all, both parties situation and will lead to the downfall of the greatest country on earth because voters are more interested in MY PARTY, MY PARTY, than right and wrong.

Answer 2

The voters condone the actions (through complicity) of what Congress has done for a lot longer than just the last 20 years.

Our education system does have problems. But that is a local problem. Now just because the federal government is part of the problem doesn't mean it's the whole problem.

Our tax system is too complex and that is the fault of government. But the changes I've heard from the candidates are bandaids for a problem that requires major surgery.

As far as homeland security goes. We have laws on the books to take care of them. Now just recently we made a whole new branch of government the TSA. They have hired thousands of people to monitor passengers. If they had put that many people to work finding those who are here illegally we wouldn't have a homeland security problem. Oh and government would have to tell the ACLU to get lost when they holler someone here is being returned to their home country because they are here illegally. The A in ACLU stands for American. The bottom line is IF they aren't Americans and they are here illegally they should be sent home.

Answer 3

Mike,

You ask a great question, but one for which you will not find an answer in here. Millions of votes are cast each election, and only a handful of these voters are in here giving you there opinion. I agree that our elected officials have lost touch with mainstream society, but I fear that there is little that can be done about this without mass outrage. Even a million man march or hundreds of thousands protesting in D.C. will have no effect on a government that is in the pocket of lobbyist. When you vote one out of office, two more come to take his place. Without forcing each candidate to take a polygraph exam, we will never really know what we are getting until we let them loose in office.

Answer 4

Certainly there are some open issues, but have you looked around lately?

The standard of living in this country is ridiculously high. You cite some issues, but how exactly does 'corporate greed' play into any of this or impact your day-to-day life? Perhaps you have less relative to some rich people, but you aren't doing badly at all. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I know this because you are posting messages on the internet during the day...even for a moment. Not digging ditches. Not running from militias. Not standing in line for soup. Life in America is so far from 'broke', it is ridiculous. You don't repair a burnt out taillight on a Mercedes by performing a complete overhaul.

The biggest thing that stands out with regard to your post is that every problem you cite results from government involvement. True, everything the government gets involved in is degraded in quality.

Look for people who do not see expanding the federal government's power via legislation or taxation as 'the answer'. Look to local or state governments for infrastructure. Look to free markets for prosperity.

Let's get the federal government back to what it was intended to be as outlined in the Constitution. Not a retirement system. Not a school-builder.

If you think a few thousand powerful corporations are bad, think about centralizing all of that power under one organization; the federal government. In whole or in part, such centralization can only lead to greater inefficiency and corruption.

Yes. Address the problems in government. Just be careful what you consider a problem.

Answer 5

Corprate greed?
What about personal greed. I see these "poor kids' walking aroung wiht 150 dollar sneekers. They put $5000.00 rims on $800.00 cars. Yet they cant afford to help educate their kid. Bling is more important than education. That is cultural issue not a governmental one.
For every greedy corporation I can give 10000 kids who parents can help educate in decency but chose to educate kids is destructive behavior.
Liberals support this behavior, (sow the seed) then blame conservatives and corprate greed when the behavior is multiplied ( reap the consequences).
So much talent and productivity gets wasted. Good decent People is still Americas #1 natural resource. Corporate greed wants to exploit that not deminish it.