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15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Military hangs \'Help ... · 0 replies · +1 points

O.K. are you ready for your answer? Bureaucracy.

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Military hangs \'Help ... · 0 replies · +1 points

You speak all the dialects? Good job, that's impressive. If you were born here, in the U.S., you can get all the clearances and do something cool.

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Ron Sims leaves behind... · 0 replies · -2 points

That's why Obama nominated him!

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Ron Sims leaves behind... · 0 replies · +2 points

That's funny

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Ron Sims leaves behind... · 1 reply · +4 points

He had a D next to his name.

And actually, it does have to do with Obama; Obama nominated him for director of HUD.

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Ron Sims leaves behind... · 1 reply · -9 points

But isn't most of the money penalties. So, money is going from one part of the government to another. Where is the net loss?

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Ron Sims leaves behind... · 4 replies · +7 points

Conservatives use charity instead of government to build homes for people.

But yes, Republicans and Democrats are equally capable of wasting money. However, don't confuse Liberal with Democrat, or Conservative with Republican. Liberalism and Conservatism are ideologies. Democrat and Republican are political parties.

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Drug agents looking fo... · 0 replies · +4 points

How's that for economic stimulus! Maybe that should be our official policy: print money, through from moving cars, everyone's happy!

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Top Dem senator says r... · 1 reply · +8 points

Perhaps Dodd should return his AIG campaign contributions?

15 years ago @ KOMO - Seattle, WA - Congress to AIG: Not s... · 1 reply · +1 points

Smarter people? Yes and No. What we need are ethical people. People that have integrity. People that do the right thing for the simple reason that it's the right thing to do. We don't have that.

What we have are unethical people. People who don't have integrity. People that do what they've got to do to get reelected for the simple reason that they've got to get reelected. I believe most of our politicians are very smart people, just deplorable. Now, it's been worse before, but it's getting bad.

Back in the 1880s, I think it was, in Saint Louis, the government officials distinguished between good graft and bad graft (graft is the acquisition of gain (as money) in dishonest or questionable ways). I forget what the difference was between the two that made them good or bad. The point is, however, they were so corrupt that they justified their corruption by saying, there's a difference between good and bad corruption. I don't believe we're to that point, but it's getting there.

So, what I'm saying is, you're right that there isn't an incentive to do those jobs if they pay "**it." But, I think it's a different problem. It's a problem with the culture of politics.

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