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Solving Whose Problem?

Andy440 Wrote: Nov 25, 2009 3:19 PM

The two-party system is broken. Neither party is serving the interests of working class or middle America; they serving themselves and the special interests who are bankrolling them to continue in power. The Republicans had Congress for twelve years (1994-2006) and the White House for eight years (2000-2008) and did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING with the opportunity that was given them by the American people. What we got under Republican leadership was Enron, Viacom, Tyco, Worldcom and Bernie Ebbers, Wall Street mega corruption, Bernie Maddoff and a free pass by the SEC, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and the billion dollar 'no-bid', endless war contract bonanza for Halliburton-Brown Root in Iraq and Afghanistan for everything from toothbrushes to...

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Solving Whose Problem?

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems-- of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

Many of the things the government does that may seem stupid are not stupid at all, from the standpoint of the elected officials or bureaucrats who do these things.