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Do you feel corruption in America is worse now, or better?

Consider congressional lobbying, corrupt corporate leadership (AIG, etc), the fact the SEC turned a blind eye to Bernie Madoff for so long. I'm inclined to surmise it's getting worse. What is your feeling?

Update:

I resolutely disagree one party or "wing" is at fault. America has a systematic abuse of power defect. Something must change. For example, the financial melt-down came from abuse of an antequated regulation system (the financial reform act of 2001). Congressional influence was "purchased" and the result was disaster. But is that changing?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I'm mad, angry, sad, and terrified all at once. Does that answer your question?

  • 1 decade ago

    After taking a close look at the Republicans and the Democrats ... I registered as an Independent! Corruption has taken over the government ... Democrats and Republicans are equally at fault.

    We need to go back to the blueprint for this Constitutional Republic (The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence) and find out how the country got into the current state.

    Each new administration has helped enact laws that reward the "friends" of the administration with tax dollars or special treatment. Each new administration has pushed government into the daily lives of the tax paying citizens in ways I am sure the founding fathers never intended.

    If I was to guess how long ago we started deviating from the original plan for the government ... I'd put the date at around 1860 give or take a decade!

    I believe in the principles this country was founded on, I love the Constitution ... but I am appalled at the current state of government in this country!

    Confedate Seditionist

  • flitt
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    So if the white individuals are incorrect for having the KKK then what do you call Jess Jasckazz, Al Shi@thead, and Louis Ferrakan? All 3 of them are in basic terms as undesirable by way of applying certainty the klan. they only use the media to get their hate message throughout the time of. the main vital significant project with the white and black races are the blacks who think of of the whites owe them some component for not something. in basic terms like the lazy slobs innovations-blowing here in New Orleans interior the approach hurricane Katrina, the state and community government stated each physique to get out, this replaced into going to be the worst hurricane the state had ever considered. whether the lazy slobs stayed, then cryed that the white human beings left them there to drown, all the on a matching time as they have been steeling each little component that replaced into not underwater. whilst the white human beings went to rescue them they have been capturing on the rescuers. they have been capturing on the millitary helicopters, on the cranes that have been attempting to supply up the water. whether the white human beings have been the reason on the lower back of the flood and left the harmful blacks to drown. Oh yea the hurricane certainly affected the blacks in New Orleans. The media carried out precise alongside with the crying too, the media hardly even reported any of the 17 surrounding parishes that have been additionally affected or the persons who left their familys to return decrease lower back and help rescue the lazy slobs. whilst the black inhabitants stops questioning that the government and white human beings owe them some component, the races will come across the right thank you to stay collectively. yet that isn't ensue in this existence time, as long as there are people who keep preparation their youthful babies to hate. (the two white and black) Af some distance as Ombomba i'd opt to careless if he have been crimson, i think of of he's a sorry person for a president, yet so is Hillary.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    With the liberals controlling the government, and liberal judges controlling the courts, no one has to worry about going to jail.

    So you tell me.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Corruption in American politics is as old as American politics.

    No better, no worse than it's ever been.

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