{"id":766,"date":"2008-10-09T20:56:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T01:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2008-10-09T20:56:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T01:56:44","slug":"the-problem-with-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/10\/09\/the-problem-with-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take a look at the Federal Election Commission<\/a>‘s web site.<\/p>\n

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That’s 124 million dollars from the state of California.\u00a0 Add all the states together and more than ONE BILLION DOLLARS has been donated and spent on the 2008 Presidential Election.\u00a0 The job pays $400,000 per year plus a few fringe benefits (a spacious home, a few bullet-proof cars and a couple of 747 jets).<\/p>\n

Those fringe benefits might add up to several times the salary, but we are still talking about a lopsided cost for a job.\u00a0 The cost-benefit ratio is something like 500 to 1.\u00a0 And spending this money only gives you four years of the salary.\u00a0 If you want the job a second time, you have to spend just as much during the re-election campaign.<\/p>\n

You won’t hear a story about this on the news.\u00a0 Where do you think 99% of this money is spent?\u00a0 The media isn’t about to bite the hand that gives them the handout.<\/p>\n

Is there any question as to why the average person doesn’t trust the government?<\/p>\n

Here is something else I don’t understand.\u00a0 The president sends a three page document to Congress.\u00a0 Those three pages are incorporated into a 110 page law which fails to pass the House.\u00a0 The Senate then takes that document, adds 341 pages making the total a behemoth 451 pages.\u00a0 This is passed by both houses and sent back to the President where he signs it into law<\/a>.\u00a0 Who gets credit for this law?\u00a0 The President’s contribution now weighs in at less than 1% of the final document.<\/p>\n

If your work is 1% of a group project in one of my classes, you aren’t getting many points from the final grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take a look at the Federal Election Commission‘s web site. That’s 124 million dollars from the state of California.\u00a0 Add all the states together and more than ONE BILLION DOLLARS has been donated and spent on the 2008 Presidential Election.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}