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I'm complaining more the older I get. I look back at Bush and I see a guy who never saw a spending bill he didn't like, got us involved in too much nation building, and generally was just a disappointment.
Obama said "get the special interests out of politics" back in 2007. Here we are in 2012 and he's just the same as all the other ones who rolled through. No "hope and change", just "more of the same". He's like George Bush on steroids.Comment
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In this case, money is only a means to an end ... the real goal is power. That's the goal for everyone that wants to become President. To be powerful. What they do with that power, how they go about getting that power, what bargains they make to get the money to get the power ... that's what you can judge about how corrupt they are. When politicians (any of them, including Ron Paul) sell out the people to appeal to a constituency that helps them get elected, or re-elected, that is corrupt behavior.
They are all corrupt to some degree or another. It just depends on how they get the power, and what they do with it once they get it.Comment
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Remember during the debate with McCain, Obama said:
"We need to eliminate a whole host of programs that don't work. And I want to go through the federal budget line by line, page by page, programs that don't work, we should cut. Programs that we need, we should make them work better."
What has he cut? He doubled down on everything. What's he going to add to the federal debt after one term? $6 trillion? Speaking of that, why hasn't Harry Reid passed a budget in the Senate in over 900 days? Isn't that dereliction of duty?Comment
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I think the big corruption in US politics is in plain view, it's campaign funding.
A system where you need to spend 5 hours a day the whole time you are in office begging money for your next campaign is completely insane. Shitty job too, so even if they aren't affected by who gives them money by definition you are going to get politicians who are good at getting money out of people for campaign funds which is not necessarily the same kind of person who is good at governing.Comment
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I agree (and Ron Paul doesn't ... gasp!! I'm turning a blind eye again!!)
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I'll take a shot at this.... from most to least corrupt....
Newt
Mittens
Google Boy
Barry
Paul
Now that said, he's still a Randtard, and would still destroy this country, if not held back by a solid LIBERAL majority in both houses of Congress.
It may be true that "he can't be bought". But when the very things he professes to believe in - right wing Libertarianism - removes all regulation and kills half the government, they don't have to buy him. He's already theirs for free. Unless there's a Congress that can stop him from doing so.Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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So why doesn't GE and other major corporations align behind him and use their corporate billions and media machines to put him in the Presidency?Comment
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Because he can't win...Comment
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oh, how could I forget!
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Because GE is also a "defense" contractor, and they are making big piles of money off the Chimp's wars (and the fact that Obama kept them going). They like hearing Newt, Froth boy, and the dog abuser ranting about how they can't wait to start World War III in Iran.
Ron Paul's no use to the "defense" industry, but that would be the obvious execption to the corporate love of his total deregulation fantasies.Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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I've had dealings with GE over the years and while I've met people there I get on with the company ethos is fucking harsh.
They sack people not for being bad at their jobs but just for not being as good at their jobs as other people. For example they do shit like culls whereby they just sack their bottom 10% of people even of they have been doing ok. Very Glengarry Glen Ross.
Any time I wonder what I am doing without any security ducking and diving running my own little company with no company pension or security I only need to talk for 5 minutes to a GE person to remind me why.
Personally I think harsh company ethos like that is self defeating in the same way the Nazi's were doomed because they were cunts. I'm no expert and don't want to be but anecdotally I think fear is very bad for organisations and I can almost smell it when I meet GE people.
Sorry I've wandered off topic completely...
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