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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
I don't think Americans "asked" for Congress to bail out the banks. The bankers convinced Congress with fear tactics to pass the bail out.
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The whole banking fiasco has been going on for a long time now. It didn't start in 2008. Congress created the rules that allowed the banks to ask for the bailout long before 2008. So yes, in a sense the 'people' at the very least allowed Congress to do what they have been doing by constantly sending the same corrupt morons back into office again and again.
Barney Frank is retiring, and the Boston Herald ran a rather scathing article on him the other day. Said that it is ridiculous that he got elected year after year WHILE running the House Financial Committee or whatever the hell it was called, DESPITE some obvious evidence that he was using his position to benefit friends and family.
The people are responsible for the government they elect.
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I don't think Americans "asked" the military industrial complex to spend trillions of dollars to invade most of the Middle East to hunt down Bin Laden.
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60% approval for the War in Iraq at the start, and probably even higher approval for the War in Afghanistan suggests otherwise. Americans are outraged by the SOPA bill, but not by a $700 billion dollar military budget.
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Did Americans "ask" for billions in "foreign aid" to be passed around the globe?
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How many representatives have the American public sent to office that said they would reduce foreign aid? How many Americans call their public official and tell them they don't support sending billions to Saudi Arabia?
By and large Americans don't care about foreign aid.
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Did Americans "ask" Donald Rumsfeld to inform them on Sept 10/01 that the Pentagon "misplaced" $2.3 trillion worth of funds? Of course the next day the whole world forgot about that....
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Sounds like a conspiracy theory, but I doubt Americans care about that.
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They are abusing the power that the voters give them, and the system is set up so they don't pay any consequences.....
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No, Americans keep sending the same corrupt fools back into office year after year and then complain when they don't get the services they demand.
The people are responsible for the government they elect.