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Posted 11/05/2012 8:18 pm
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What is the benefit of being elected the Chief Kahuna in Zimbabwe? Not much. It's a bit like owning the best house in a burned out and abandoned neighborhood.
What is the benefit of being elected the Chief Kahuna in Zimbabwe? Not much. It's a bit like owning the best house in a burned out and abandoned neighborhood.
By the time that happens theyll be long gone. Most of the people with those policies are the old guard. Its the younger members in congress and the senate that are legitimately worried about the future. When your 60 or 70 40 years down the line doesn't concern you.
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A lot of them certainly do but it is far from "everyone". I fully understand that it is difficult to pull a hog's head out of the trough. But it truly needs to be done IF we wish to remain a viable country. If we do not, then the gloves will come off, the system will collapse, and a dictatorship will likely follow. Not a happy ending to what was one 'the greatest country on Earth'. I fervently hope that it does not come to this, although it may. All I can say about that eventuality is that IF it happens, it will be because we deserve it.
A lot of them certainly do but it is far from "everyone". I fully understand that it is difficult to pull a hog's head out of the trough. But it truly needs to be done IF we wish to remain a viable country. If we do not, then the gloves will come off, the system will collapse, and a dictatorship will likely follow. Not a happy ending to what was one 'the greatest country on Earth'. I fervently hope that it does not come to this, although it may. All I can say about that eventuality is that IF it happens, it will be because we deserve it.
I agree itll be because we deserve it. I used everyone as short hand. Its not everyone but it is a significant percentage of the population, if it wasnt there would have been even more massive turn over in the 2010 elections and it would have been very clear if you want to keep your job cut the spending and make it work. Yet the man in charge of the senate whose yet to produce a budget in 4 years was reelected. Like you said its our own fault. Most people cant even be bother to vote.
One things for sure though our culture has changed to where a lot of people think theyre entitled to what others have. A lot of people make it sound like the government is doing you a favor allowing you to keep any money from taxes, then of course theres rich celebrities (which sadly people pay more attention too than actual things that matter) who charge charities for appearances for fund raisers.
Its a lot like what we see in Greece. People may want things to change but no one is willing to give anything up to make it happen
