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Originally Posted by TheUsed2lguy
JayJamJay said earlier that all politicians are necessarily corrupt; and that may be true in our system. I don't understand why we can't raise the presidents pay to at least $2-3 million per year. We have professional athletes who make about 10 times that, and just in endorsement deals. You're talking about the throne of an empire, becoming the leader of the 'greatest country on earth', and arguably the head of the most important job in the world.
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That completely undermines the system of values which is the fundamental basis of the American Presidency. The President isn't an athlete or celebrity. He is the spokesman for a nation.
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We haven't a president who wasn't corrupted by lobbyists since Jimmy Carter. It may have even gone back farther. All I know is there are 3 main reasons a person in today's world aspires to be president:
1) To attain wealth
2) To hoard power over us
3) They genuinely want to help out this country, and the world.
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As an optimist, I genuinely believe that every president's deepest, most innate desire is to help this country. Generally, the weaker, more corruptable people are eschewed by our democratic system long before they attain presidency (with a handful of exceptions).
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We need to pay the president more money, so he's not so likely to make friends with lobbyists. We should have an I.Q. test for the candidates. America is so broke up, and most can't even decide whether Bush, McCain, and Obama are even intelligent people. I think once this country actually had intelligent presidents. But now, it's in the corporations best interests to market candidates with looser morals, and yes, I'm making the correlation between loose morals and low intelligence.
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Again, that's not what our founding fathers intended. Yes, they were intelligent. But it was their huge conviction and high morality which spurned them to create the articles which defined our Constitution. And it's not always the smartest that make the best presidents. Ulysses S. Grant is often regarded as one of the most intelligent, yet he was a puppet while in office.
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Since Reaganomics starting tearing apart our middle class in 1980, we have been becoming a slave state, and in today's society we have to work like slaves just to keep the roof over our head. Or we're busy going to college, and still working 30 hours to pay tuition. Or we're out sipping wine on a yacht, 'saying f*ck the world,' because they have worked in that world, and they hate it, because they know it's busy, busy, busy.
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I'm going to be honest, I don't know entirely what you mean here. The United States has one of the strongest middle classes in the world, with about 95% of its population residing within. It is not a country like China, where the top 5% are responsible for 75% of their GDP.
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We're so busy in today's world, we don't have time to learn about the issues, or the candidates. We just want to see some 20 second clip of an oppressive dictatorial candidate banging his gavel on T.V. to make us feel safe. We're so f*cking stupid we don't even read any more. We read about how to make money and God.
Read about inequalities if you want to make the world a better place, PEACE!!
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If this is an attack on one or both of the upcoming Presidential candidates, it is misguided and certainly confusing. I have misgivings about the American people myself, but I consider America to be a fundamentally intelligent country. I think that many Americans care about the issues but are reluctant to take further action. If you want to change this course of reality, please don't condemn us and ostracize us from political action. Tell us what we should do.
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