The Conservative wrote:Kath wrote:The Conservative wrote:
We all were aware, the difference is we don't just listen to the media, we read other sources to get to the facts, the average American is a solid F.U. to doing that... they would rather be spoon fed information than what we do.
I don't know very many people who don't realize both parties are filled with corrupt asshats. The only difference is which of the two they see as the lessor of two evils.
I think everyone above the age of 18 knows that DC is filled with scum. Don't fall into the Trump trap of thinking every story reported is fake news. Bias exists, yes, but it's not as if they are painting Pelosi as having a halo over her head.
I don't, but the fact is that the DNC is looking worse and worse as each day that passes. The RNC is not much better, but they have been unfairly vetted for decades so their dirt isn't as damming, because we already know most of what is out there. Now the question is, will we believe it because of how biased the media has been for so long?
Worst kind of corruption, or basically theft and looting of government funds, can happen especially in two events: war and natural disasters (like hurricanes or earthquakes).
The basic reason is that decisions have to quickly and usually there isn't the normal transparency or timetable of doing things. Both events aren't the ordinary type of government spending. They are "emergency" spending, unanticipated. Hence opportunity makes the thief. There simply is a window of opportunity to cash in, to get the kickbacks, to steal. Now add true incompetence at higher level, just like Dubya Bush's infamous FEMA director Brown (who was in a few days replaced into Katrina by the Chief of Staff of the Coast Guard), and basically a not-so-well working White House, and things can get worse.
Katrina cost over 100 billion dollars. Quite telling is that the mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin (Democrat) got 10-year jail sentence for various corruption charges later, part of them connected to Katrina relief. How much corruption is taking Place in Puerto Rico and in the relief there, who knows.
(Put the wars into context, the War in Iraq has cost roughly ten times that (1 trillion), Afghanistan a little bit less than that. The war profiteers might be a class of their own...)
