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Harry Reid Among Those Under Scrutiny In Abramoff Probe

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Posted by .com 2006-01-11 03:02|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Party people, both Democrat and Republican, will get all hot and bothered about who gets the worst of this. Regardless, I see this mess as a great example ofthe reason people are so interested in corrupting politicians is because they're given so much control over our money and our ves. If they had little control, people would have little incentive to corrupt them. The reason Republicans seem to outnumber Democrats in this mess is because the Republicans are in control of the Government. If the situation were reversed it would be the Democrats outnumbering the Republicans. Why try to influence someone who has no , or very little, power?

...if you back government solutions for any given problem, the corruption just comes with the scenery. When you put people in a position to make decisions arbitrarily, there's no accounting for the arbitrariness of their decisions. When we find someone with their hand in the cookie jar, we should put 'em up in the stockades, no question.

...but that isn't the solution to the problem of corruption. The problem is that there's little substantive difference between corruption and the arbitrary manner in which government does business as usual. It's the nature of the beast.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2006-01-11 07:35|| 2006-01-11 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Amen Deacon.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-01-11 08:17|| 2006-01-11 08:17|| Front Page Top

#3 I havent heard a peep out of Dirty Harry in almost a week have any of you?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-01-11 09:36|| 2006-01-11 09:36|| Front Page Top

#4 I hope Hayworth doesn't have Quid pro quo hanging out there

Posted by RD 2006-01-11 10:21|| 2006-01-11 10:21|| Front Page Top

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