Politics

People are venting about Obama in the bin ladin thread, so here's a better place for it.

Anyhoo, here's my take on the whole thing. The whole system is wrong and invites corruption. You have to be a multimillionaire to be president, congressman, etc. Because of this, the government is just full of CEOs and other such people with large wallets.

While proving that you can be successful is a good thing, who have they proven they are they working for? Themselves or for the people? Who are their peers? The people they are surrounded by? The same kind of person. Who do they invite to join them? More people just like them. No diversity. The only differing opinion is that of the other party. And because of how the majority system works, third parties have no voice.

When it's possible for a person making $20k a year to be president, the nation will be alot better off.

 

The government doesn't work for people; it works for corporates and businesses.

 

Since a good while Politics are just another way of business. Profits need to be made if any form of business is to be made.
Not that I am fully against it, but it went overboard I think.

 

Osama bin Laden buried at sea! Osama bin Laden's Dead Body Buried at Sea... cant wait another sponge bob episode.....

 

And a southpark episode, and a family guy episode, etc...

 

Are you kidding me? Guess what, that was tried. With freaking Carter, a dumb peanut farmer (how the hell did that turn out?) or Andrew Jackson. The good presidents, the ones who FIXED the economy, were not idiots like Grant who were military heroes but had no clues about running a country. You don't have to be a millionaire, not at all, just well versed in politics. The government isn't full of CEO's (Obama runs a company? no, thats why he sucks as president).

You're opinion is of the populists and progressives, and if I recall correctly, they didn't exactly HELP the economy or country now did they? When Andrew Jackson tried to "involve" the common man with the spoils system, government corruption shot up. Sure the US government is corrupt, but don't blame it cause of businessmen. Its politics, and ANYBODY who needs to win has to eventually play dirty cause the other side WILL. Its not business that corrupts but politics.

Third parties DO have a voice, they just often are so irrelevant that they don't get anywhere. The system is meant for POPULAR sovereignty, so of course you need a majority system. I feel its actually generous that they need 51% of the electoral votes and not just the most to win, seeing as that can allow third parties to toss the election into the House of Reps (has happened a few times in history...).

Just saying, I feel you are extremely misguided in your opinion. Its easy to blame big business for problems, but honestly, Reagen did prove that there is such thing as a "trickle down" effect, and that is why recessions such as the recent one hurt so much. Ignoring Wall Street hurts Main street. FYI.