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• pbearperry Member Posts: 91 Member

  November 2011 #2

  Corruption is nothing new here.Right after the Civil War,corruption was seen just about every where.They didn't call them Carpetbaggers for nothing.

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• shotgunshooter3 Senior Member Posts: 5,427 Senior Member

  November 2011 #3

  My pet era of history to dislike is all the New Deal programs that came out of the Great Depression thanks to FDR (that now my generation gets to pay for, joy), but I fully admit to not having studied American History in any great detail.
  
  The more I learn about politics, the more prone I am to saying that corruption has almost universally run rampart.

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• Teach Senior Member Posts: 18,428 Senior Member

  November 2011 #4

  It would be hard to find a more corrupt period in our history than the time from the late 1800's to the beginning of the Great Depression. The railroads, the oil industry, and later the automotive industry were all in their infancy, and there were few, if any restrictions on big business. Politicians were simply a commodity to be bought and sold, even worse than today. The huge fortunes amassed by some of the big industrialists like the Rockefellers, The Carnegie clan, and the Vanderbilts, and criminal enterprises like the Kennedys and others involved in the liquor trade set the stage for political machines that took total control of the legislative process, and to a great extent, the courts as well. When the financial balloon finally burst, some of these families had enough of a cushion to ride things out, while others went bust.
  
  As an almost direct result of the excesses of the super-rich, the growth of unions as a political power base set the stage for massive criminal influence, such as the building of Las Vegas, and other alliances of the newly-organized Communist party combined with the huge financial reserves of the unions. Money plus political influence made the leaders of the "working class" some of the most corrupt folks in the world. They still are- - - -super-rich thugs living in high style on the union dues of the people they claim to represent.
  
  The operative phrase behind all sorts of corruption is "follow the money!" For all of recorded history, the "golden rule" has been in effect- - - - -"The one with the gold makes the rules!"
  Jerry

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• gunwalker Member Posts: 471 Member

  November 2011 #5

  What teach said.

  We do not view the world as it is, but as we perceive it to be.

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• lightkeeper Member Posts: 168 Member

  November 2011 #6

  I would also agree with Teach.

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• Big Chief Senior Member Posts: 32,995 Senior Member

  November 2011 #7

  But... but..... the Obama Administration is open and honest, the most transparent in history right?:devil:

  It's only true if it's on this forum where opinions are facts and facts are opinions
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• Big Chief Senior Member Posts: 32,995 Senior Member

  November 2011 #8

  That's right Teach and 100 years from now they will say green energy programs/businesses .....................................hell we are already saying that.

  It's only true if it's on this forum where opinions are facts and facts are opinions
  Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
  I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!

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