Why I hate US Politics:

looks like newschoolers is deviod of educated chaps and yah our govt is totally wack

that is a great article. i read the entire thing... ive always been aware of porkbarrel legislation , but the extent to which it runs rampant is something that i think the usual person doesnt grasp. the bridge to nowhere was a great example... makes me like this coburn fellow. he sounds like what a republican should be, and what the majority of congressional republicans fail to live up to.

why doesnt newschoolers run for election

Coburn for president.

wow, that was very eye opening. good fing, good share

thanks for posting this -- it was definitely an interesting read, though nothing exactly secret or new. it is easy (nearly impossible not) to become disheartened with most of those who supposedly represent our best interests. i am personally angered and saddened by what our government has become, but we cannot simply give up. the system must be fixed, rebuilt, whatever it takes, and this process starts with individual involvement. vote, write, e-mail, read, talk... melvs put it best: 'get yourself educated.'

i'll try to refrain from preaching any of my own political views. i admire the stance senator coburn has taken on fiscal waste, but let's not all start rubbing his pp and electing him to the presidency just yet -- the man is pretty damn loony. take some time and learn all about it for yourself. just be cautious to soak in knowledge from various sources and make your own decisions as opposed to listening to one talking head and allowing it to make your mind up for you.

ya our government has problems, but our country is far from fucked up. I have been/lived in many many other countries and their problems are so much worse, and many of the people wish they could have the kind of opportunitys I did. We should just be thankful.

i wonder if mitch will have something to say

Huhuhuh...whats devoid means?!

Well uh I do...haha

It saddens me how inactive people are in their own rights. Most people drift through life and let these people stomp all over their rights. I see people all the time complaining about our president and such, yet 1/20 will actually do anything about it. The first question I ask someone if they are complaining about the president to me is did they vote? Did you even take advantage of the right that was one of the founding principles of this country. While in its original state only white land-owning men could vote, people have fought hard and even died to get equal voting rights. Back to the point, most people just sit here and complain about what Bush has done wrong (most of the time problems that are completely unrelated to Bush ie Katrina, Global Warming, Inflation, etc.) yet they do absolutely nothing about it. They don't know who their senators are, in fact, take a step back...how many of you reading this right now actually know the senators and political members who represent your area? We can say the government is corrupt all we want, but it won't do a god damn thing. We can complain and complain, but it won't change anything. Politicians will still use the same sneaky tactics that have been used for decades and the US population is still too ignorant to see.

How can we get around this? How can one person help? How can we change the way this country is headed?

Read, read, read. Understand the issues that are going on. Form an opinion instead of having one spoon fed to you. Find out who your congressman is and send them a letter. While they may not read all of it, they definitely read the basic ideas. Politicians don't like to receive letters that go against their current policies. Sure one letter won't change their actions, but if you tell someone and get them interested enough, they tell another person and soon you have a large group of people willing to make a statement.

Americans and Canadians both need to wake the fuck up and realize politicians OWN YOU until you do something about it. For your own future, take 5 minutes out of the day and just glance at a newspaper. Hell, go to a news website and just look at the titles. Just find out what's going on, the articles may be slanted, but they give you a general consensus of what is happening. Form your own opinions and vote accordingly. I don't want to see a generation screwed over because of ignorance.

Over the last month or so, I've gone from very interested in history/politics/governments/international relations to completely apathetic to all of it. I simply don't care; it's a shame.

Our gov. is messed up with all of the loopholes and shit like that, but it works

Well, if you care about your future it would probably help to look at current events. I'm sure you can find something interesting wherever you look.

well I was assuming you know what I meant; but I must have stated it poorly. I used to have a great interest in history and political science; I applied to both schools for next year as a poli-sci major, ran for an elected office in my town, all that jazz, and now I don't care a bit. I'll watch the news, vote, read the paper, everything that a normal person should do, but I lost the extra-something.

makes me want to move to canda. i didnt read all of it--just to the first break. Holy crap thats really scary. It makes me feel like one day in the future we will look back on this as a dark period in US history. Hopefully this guy can get his word out, because it seems like if people were more informed, they would do something about this. But even if they did know, there probably arent too many politicians that wont go off and make a bunch of projectd for themselves. 9 trillion is just so much. I used to think that most of it was from the Iraq war, so this is some news to me.

wow, just wow. scarier than Saw.

Its a big case of the two party system, whoever you vote for, your gonna get fucked.

at least we can vote and not have someone blow themself up in the mall about it

I'm sure somebody has blown themselves up in a mall or similarly crowded place because they didn't like our system.

That was a really interesting and elegant piece of writing. Apparently assuming that people go into public service out of a sincere desire to serve the public good was an errant heuristic leap. I'm embarrassed and ashamed to have these arrogant pricks representing my country to the international community. There are few things that piss me off more than mismanagement of large sums of money because every time I earn a buck I have to give some of it back to those retards in Washington. Writing this post I'm actually discovering that I'm beyond angry, I'm fucking furious. There has got to be some way to clean house, and erase this sycophantic corruption...isnt there?

bump. i am guilty of not being active enough too mostly because im always on ns. when people post things like this i get a chance to read it so please keep stuff like this comming.
im against him on abortion and whatnot but love his ideas of the budget and its after reading stuff like this that. someone in congress needs to take over and do somehitng right and after reading about that bridge to nowhere, i am wondering if i should even bother paying my taxes.

when i got that gq in the mail... that article was the first thing i read, nothing i didnt already know but its nice to see that shit is starting to come out in the open about how our government is cheating the citizens