STATE OF THE ONION
All governments are corrupt.
Some are just more tainted than others.
There can be no other way.
Whether elected by ballot or propelled by sticks and stones, the inhabitants of the castle are always playing with the coin of the realm.
That is, your money.
The kings, prime ministers, presidents, despots-for-life, kleptogenerals or whatever title they may wrap about their shoulders have not been tending the fields or the flock, re-soling the shoes or sailing the rugged waters to bring back bounty from distant lands.
They have been taxing or stealing or muscling funds from the people who work - you.
Not all government actions are dreadful.
Just most.
Occasionally, a man nor woman in government will do a good deed. They will treat some poor local sufferer with kindness. They will act reasonably.
This is the exception, not the rule.
The official story is always suspect.
If not an outright lie, it is at the least a marvelous thigh-slapping whopper.
Take the Canadian Senate...please.
You work.
Larry Campbell plays.
He has air fares, secretaries, lunches and a life-time sinecure.
Triple E senate is a three-Monte scam. The only reasonable senate is no senate. We don't need one. We need to spend our billions of dollars on other things.
The police are in disarray. Not just at Georgia and Homer, but across the country. Demoralized, understaffed, without leadership and clarity.
Every day, some school trustee or Member of Parliament or other elected or appointed official is found criminally responsible for some felony or other - theft, fraud, sexual misconduct, addictions, madness, lack of humour.
The teachers' union doesn't want their members to be scrutinized too closely for job performance. No tests, no evaluations. And that's just for the students. No matter. The kids are taking the tests anyway and doing just fine.
How are we to impress upon those who run for office and then how are we to remind them that this is public money with which they are playing their childish games.
You have your own personal fortunes? Good. Go ahead. Build bike lanes that no one uses.
Tear up main streets and destroy small businesses.
Open places for drug addicts to be drug addicts and for prostitutes to be prostitutes and call this progress.
On your own dollar, please.
All governments are corrupt.
In 2001, friends picked me up at Inchon airport and drove me into Seoul over the cleanest, firmest, straightest piece of highway I have ever seen. I asked from the back seat, "Who's cousin got the cement contract?" My hosts thankfully didn't get my impolite joke.
The next morning I came downstairs to the breakfast room in the hotel (Korean, American and Japanese breakfasts on tap), chose my fare and opened up the English language newspaper.
What was the headline story?
The Highway Cement Scandal.
Somebody's cousin was at the center of the story.
All governments are corrupt.
If you even knew how many people are working, for example, for the Canadian federal government in this city doing obscure, unnecessary, largely political backroom jobs that add nothing to the common weal, you would throw up. These faceless bastards have six-figure jobs. They are plotters and plodders. They are deemed necessary to the smooth working of your government. They all have i Phones.
All governments are corrupt.
Some are just more corrupt than others.
They are playing with your money.
They are naughty, irresponsible children.
We mustn't take them too seriously.
They are good targets for fun and ridicule.
5 comments:
Politicians and diapers have the same things in common. They should be changed regularly, and for the same reason.
Great comment.
I had a conversation with someone who works in Indian Affairs, and he estimated that the department could shed 75% of their management, and not a damn thing would change. There would just be less red tape to get through to get things done for once.
I'm surprised you didn't go down the Pamela Martin/Gordon Campbell path on this comment.
always interesting and informative to say the least, David.
thanks.....
The worlds financial crisis might spell the end of corrupt government. When the Western world realizes that they have been turned into third worlders by big banks and big buisness people wull revolt.
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Once upon a time, politicians allowed corruption in their ranks. Gradually, country's are taken over by the very corporations, the politicians take the money from. Such as, I will finance your party, for certain concessions, you will have to make for us. Canada became, a cesspool of corruption.
The giant corporations hoard all of the money. This stops the cash flow around the globe. This causes a recession. Much the same idea as, gas company's hoard the gas, to drive prices up. Every time there is a recession, the large company's are behind them.
The giant oil and gas company's, thrive on wars. If there is no war going on. Well then, a reason must be invented. The way things are shaping up, there could be a WW111.
Wikileaks has said, the N.A.U. is just around the corner. If you read: Harper at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York. You will see, Harper is going to dissolve Canada. This has been on the books, for a very long time.
Also read: Harper delivers his speech on Global Governance for Canada. Harper even said, Global Governance has been worked on, since 1945. There was another person, who was setting up Global Governance. Only he called it, The Thousand Year Reich.
It seems, the globe will be in sections, the North American Union, the South American Union, the Asian Union, and so on. The European Union, is already in place. The euro, is their currency. The Global Government, or, New World Order, if you like, will rule the sectioned off Unions.
The N.W.O. will be the giant corporations, our governments have sold us out to. This has been a very long time coming. Slowly we were forced into dictatorship.
Constitutions are ignored. Civil Rights and Liberties, taken away from us. Democracy and Freedoms, being denied.
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