John Williams wrote:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Chris Frandsen<lear...@mac.com> wrote:
Most of the politicians that I have
personally met are not 'self-serving" , rather they are making a great
effort to serve.
And they are good at tricking the naive into thinking that they are
behaving altruistically...
What a sad, cynical worldview you live in.
...while they take their money and give it to those who are best at
bribing them.
Hey, isn't that market forces at work? Aren't the same people that are
bribing politicians the very same "free market" enterprises that you
laud in other sentences?
How is the political "pork" market all that different, or that far
removed, from any other "free" market? More importantly: how is it that
the politicians taking bribes are worse than the corporations giving them?
I think there is just as good an argument as yours that corrupt
politicians are merely victims of a corrupt market.
The truth of the matter is probably even simpler: both sides have
corruption. There is corruption on both sides of the equation:
corruption in the free markets and corruption in politics. To laud one
sort of corruption and simultaneously despise another seems to me a
hypocritical thing to do.
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