How much do you trust the government to look out for your interests?

[kentuck]

As hundreds of billions of dollars are shoveled to the government to transfer to Wall Street and the Big Bankers, do you honestly believe that is in your best interests? Or the best interests of the nation? Or the best interests of capitalism? Is it in the interests of any of these?

Or is it simply the culmination of the transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the very top of our society? There is no doubt that this transfer has been going on at a frantic pace for quite some time but the end game is near. When we start talking about trillions of dollars transferred from the taxpayers to Wall Street, we are talking about real money and real wealth. Is it worth this much to you to save this system that we presently "enjoy"? Is there a better way? Should that question now be raised?

[Horse with no Name]

1. Foxes and henhouses come to mind. n/t

[Jamastiene]

2. ...

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You're shitting me, right? I don't trust them AT ALL.

[anarch]

3. as far as I can throw them

[ixion]

4. I don't at all...

from what I can see it's a grist mill for the one percenters and nothing more.

[Donnachaidh]

5. all the more reason to vote ALL of them out

Use the bailout vote as a blueprint. Any Senator or Congressman that voted for that wretched mess should be OUT on their asses, period. It doesn't matter what party either. We seem to have our share of puppets as well.

[Hydra]

6. Some of us have been asking the question for years

Why do we have a system that rewards people who do no work and destroy people's lives and our environment? Why do we have a system that requires constant growth when we need to be thinking about letting the population scale back? Why do we cheer for a system that harms 97% of the people in it?

I'm waiting until everyone agrees that we've had enough.

[hobbit709]

7. TRUST?!?!

My overweight diabetic neuropathic legs and carcass have a better chance of running a marathon in world record time.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. I trust them to screw us at every opportunity and then charge us for it.

In doing that, they have an incomparable track record.

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. You've missed the two major dog whistles so far

last night Obama spoke of the WPA without mentioning the letters, that would be scarrrryyyy

Today Biden described the housing initiative in ways that are eerily similar to FDRs program

Now if McCain steals it... forget it.

But I guess this is trying to be reasonable and that is not popular round these parts anymore, or probably ever

[El Pinko]

10. Complex question.

My dad spent 30 years at the Department of Labor making sure that employers treated their employees and paid them the wages they were owed by law.

Amazingly enough, even though the minimum wage is so paltry, thousands of business owners STILL pay their employees less, or stiff them altogether, and that's where my dad came in and enforced the law.

So yes, I do believe in the potential for the government to do good, but obviously not the wreck of a government we have now.


My dad retired in the late 80s by the way. God knows what kind of pathetic excuse for enforcement they have at the Bush Dept of Labor...

[The2ndWheel]

11. Seeing as how the government has to "represent" the interests of

over 300,000,000 people, all with their different views, different bodies, different thoughts, different wants, different needs, different desires...it's very difficult for a single entity to do any such thing. Which is why a $700 billion bill is created and passed. The only interest the government can end up representing is its own(because a single interest is the easiest to represent), which is why it tries to save itself.

That's always been happening, and always will continue to happen, in any human organization. The only difference is that now we've gotten to such a scale where the only say you have is indirect, and can be easily canceled out by a couple extra bucks.

[leftofthedial]

12. Until Obama is inaugurated

I don't trust them at all. 0%. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Nil. Zero.

In fact, I distrust them so much it would have to be described as -100%. I am utterly convinced that anything they do, most especially the bailout, is a scam and theft based on lies, intended to cause me and the country I love harm.