Legalized Corruption
When I was growing up I always thought that the ways of the USA were the proper ones and the rest of the world needed to learn from us. Our politicians were ethical and the policies that they would come up with and attempt to enforce in other countries was good for the rest of the world. I was living with a Crusader / Inquisition mentality. Boy was I wrong.
As I grew older (not sure about the wiser part) I came to the realization that the political system in the USA is no better and perhaps worse than in most countries. We have managed to legalize unmoral and unethical practices. Not only that but corruption is very well entrenched in business activities (more on this on a future blog).
Lets take a look at how we do a few things in America.
Elections. When political election time comes around we start seeing advertisements for career politicians that want to get elected / reelected (looking or trying to maintain cushy job with no responsibilities or accountability). Somehow there are many Naive Americans (with little or no qualifications) that are able to raise considerable amounts of political contributions (bribes) to get elected. In general, salaries and benefits for the elected officials are substantial higher than what they typically earn working on their initial chosen profession (e.g., dentist, business administrator, wrestler, actor, etc) but are nothing when compared to the funds spent attempting to get into office. I guess companies and wealthy Naïve Americans (in some cases nationals from other countries as was the case with Mrs. Clinton in the past presidential election) contribute not wanting something in return (ha ha ha). Are we in La La Land or the USA? All the immoral and unethical practices associated with elections are completely legal in our country. Similar practices in other nations are associated with sheer corruption by the same career politicians.
Politicians. Who are most (never say all) politicians? They do not tend to be people with high education or managing from inception (more on this on a future blog) successful practices / businesses. It appears that most people turn into politics when they are not successful in their private lives. Most politicians go into politics and after a few years somehow they start doing well for themselves or for their families and friends. How strange that they were not able to realize themselves in their chosen professions (yes it is that call from who know where to serve the country). The job of being a politician should be quite rewarding given the fact that once they become a politician, they do not want to return to private life. Politicians have no accountability. When they fail miserable (most do) they just excuse themselves and promise CHANGE. Try the same approach in the business world and they will find themselves out of a job in weeks or months. The difference is that there is no accountability in politics.
Laws. Politicians are behind the laws that are put together and then passed. For some strange reason laws are not passed individually but in sets. Doing so has two main advantages. First no one is able to understand what is in a bill (not even the people who authors them) so politicians write laws that benefit lobbyist (American Royalty) and destroy the USA. The second advantage is that politicians hide their personal interests (the interests of organizations and individuals who bribe them through lobbyists) by voting for the main subject of a bill but hiding hundreds or thousands of payoffs in the rest. This is why bills are not written in less than a dozen sheets of paper. Do you know how many pages are in the Health Care reform being promoted by the Obama Administration? Over a thousand. Rest my case.
Wars. How can it be possible that our country is most of the time at war? There is a documentary “Why We Fight” that attempts to describe and show why America likes wars. The logic (which appears to be quite solid) goes something like this. Large companies in the USA are in the business of making weapons and supporting the military. Such companies / contractors earn in the billions of dollars a year when the USA is not at war. When the US is at war spending approaches or exceeds a trillion dollars a year. There is way too much money lost when we are not at war. Because of this simple fact, politicians with the help of lobbyist are convinced that a war in Afghanistan will somehow make America more secure. The matter of fact is that security has nothing to do. The Dollars is the guilty party. This is due to the fact that politicians can easily be bribed to the point of committing funds that we do not have (the USA is in a huge deficit) and lives of Naive Americans that are killed and many wounded in many occasions will have scars for life. And all of this because? Because of incompetent, immoral and unaccountable politicians. Does Vice President Cheney ring a bell?
So next time that you watch the news regarding any facet of our political system, pay close attention to what is really going on. We have legalized corruption and are as bad as any third world country.
