Well, since we live in a representative democracy doesn’t that make all of us corrupt criminals? Our representatives generally only have one way of becoming a representative… [DRUMROLL]… elections!

So… either the system is rigged, or we are just crappy judges of character. Which do you think is the primary problem? And more importantly, who should we blame for the problem?

BTW, I don’t think corruption is inherently criminal… it’s just not nice.

Actually…who wants to bet that if they respond to this, they’ll cite the report as a sign of progress?

However, in France you have the people who are causing the government to make bad policies so they still don’t win.

Here we have government that has also made a lot of bad decisions over the last 70 years in both parties because they wanted “votes” and “campaign donations” and so while they didn’t “fear” the people, they also were “for sale” to the highest bidders which were sometimes voters or blocks of voters with powerful lobbies or swing vote blocks.

So, while the base in both parties wondered why their parties were not catering to them, the parties were catering to “swing independent voters” and assuming the base would vote for them because “the other party was worse.”

Now with the independent voters outnumbering the two parties, it is getting even worse.

Both France and the U.S. are in deep trouble due to socialism but there are certainly differences in the governments and who they cater to the most.

He sure seems to know a lot about terrorist attacks that haven’t happened yet.

Of course, if our history of
“government intelligence” is any indicator of the future… Santorum is completely wrong and we’re actually headed toward a period of peace and global prosperity. Fear-mongering indeed.

The movie “Sicko” had a noteworthy line in it. It came from an American living in France describing the difference between the American public and the French public (according to this individual’s perception).

“In France the government is afraid of the people, in America the people are afraid of the government.”

So true.

I say AMEN!

I listened to former Senator Rick Santorum, a supposed “conservative” of my Republican party on a very recent Hugh Hewitt radio show. I remember being very disturbed at what he was saying at the time. And here’s part of an article where the same conclusion is drawn. And before I add the excerpt, let me just reinforce what preussow states: IT IS BOTH PARTIES! THEY HAVE AN AGENDA AND THEY COULD GIVE A HOOT AS TO WHAT THE AMERICAN CITIZENS WANT OR EVEN DEMAND.

Here’s the excerpt:
“In an alarming display of fearmongering, Republican Senator Rick
Santorum has suggested that a series of “unfortunate events,” namely
terrorist attacks, will occur within the next year and change American
citizen’s perception of the war.

Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, Santorum also hyped the
necessity of “confronting Iran in the Middle East,” and predicted that
Giuliani, Romney and Tommy Thompson would be the three surviving
Republican candidates who would go head to head in the race for the
nomination.

Santorum went on to clearly imply that terror attacks will occur
inside America which will alter the body politic and lead to a
reversal of the anti-war sentiment now dominating the country.

Our government is full of crime and corruption, which is actually crime.