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Are All Local Governments Corrupt To Some Degree?
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:38 am
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:38 am
Let's start with Louisiana. Are all local governments in Louisiana corrupt to some degree?
What about across the country?
When I say local, I am referring to parish/county on down.
Or is it a lack of resources that do not allow them to do their job more accurately?
What about across the country?
When I say local, I am referring to parish/county on down.
Or is it a lack of resources that do not allow them to do their job more accurately?
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Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:39 am to OweO
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Are All Local Governments Corrupt To Some Degree?
well sure, someone always knows someone and they get preferential treatment. There are quid pro quos everywhere as well
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:40 am to OweO
If all the people bitching about Trump or the Dems or both took a look at what was going on in their local city/town/parish/county, there would be pitchforks and torches.
I grew up in a town of 200 that recently had the feds get involved in a scheme to defraud its citizens.
I grew up in a town of 200 that recently had the feds get involved in a scheme to defraud its citizens.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:41 am to OweO
Crime don't pay but politics sure does.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:43 am to OweO
Yes and everything causes cancer
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:45 am to OweO
I’d rather my local government steal my money than open the OT to see another one of your useless threads again.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:45 am to OweO
I used to work in public accounting and audited several small towns and municipalities. Most of them in my experience went out of their way to do the right thing. Were they perfect? Far from it, but I saw little evidence of widespread corruption in the half dozen or so places I went to.
That said, in most of those places I was only there for a week and mostly looking at stuff they gave to me to view. So it's possible we missed a bunch.
That said, in most of those places I was only there for a week and mostly looking at stuff they gave to me to view. So it's possible we missed a bunch.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:46 am to anc
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If all the people bitching about Trump or the Dems or both took a look at what was going on in their local city/town/parish/county, there would be pitchforks and torches.
You hit it spot on.
It all starts locally and people can have a bigger impact in local government, yet a lot of these local officials operate as if they are untouchable. And there are some who are because the people allow them to be..
Which I don't get (why people don't pay more attention to local government). These are the people who are in control of your school system, criminal system, etc, etc, etc. etc.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:46 am to OweO
This is an especially stupid question, even for the OP...
Governments, like all human institutions, are made up of human beings. Corrupt, fallible, sin-machines. So yes, all local gov'ts, all national gov'ts, all corporations and all unions, all schools and all branches of the miltary, are "corrupt to some degree". They always have been and they always will be, until they start making perfect human beings.
Governments, like all human institutions, are made up of human beings. Corrupt, fallible, sin-machines. So yes, all local gov'ts, all national gov'ts, all corporations and all unions, all schools and all branches of the miltary, are "corrupt to some degree". They always have been and they always will be, until they start making perfect human beings.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:48 am to TDsngumbo
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I’d rather my local government steal my money than open the OT to see another one of your useless threads again.
Well this is the stupidest fricking thing I ever read.. Because you are the only one who has control over whether or not you come into my threads.
You don't like them? Stay the frick out.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:51 am to OweO
Not just governments, but there is corruption in nearly all situations where there is some sort of management system where there is hierarchy. From your local school system starting in the actual schools, filtering up to the central office and through the school board...to your local town/city government...to your parish/county officials...to all branches of state government...to all branches of federal government.
It's one of those things that when you're close enough to the system to observe the corruption, it's probably not in your best interest to say anything because the person you'd complain to is probably waist deep themselves.
It's one of those things that when you're close enough to the system to observe the corruption, it's probably not in your best interest to say anything because the person you'd complain to is probably waist deep themselves.
This post was edited on 2/12/20 at 8:52 am
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:52 am to OweO
I am 100% convinced that no human can have a good amount of power without becoming corrupt. Maybe its because i'm from Louisiana. I wish someone could convince me otherwise...
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:53 am to Uptowner
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This is an especially stupid question, even for the OP...
Is it really that stupid? In The Spleen's experience the local governments he worked with.. He said went out of their way to not be corrupt.
And I am not talking about corruption in terms of human error or people doing things that they were not aware it corrupt the system.
I am talking about a government in which people get in a position in which they have intentions out of the gate to operate in a corrupt manner. They run for a position with the intentions to not do the right things.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:54 am to LSUsmartass
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but there is corruption in nearly all situations where there is some sort of management system where there is hierarchy.
So would you include corporations?
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:55 am to OweO
Absolutely
Posted on 2/12/20 at 8:55 am to OweO
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84000 posts
Good lord dude, do you do anything besides post here
Posted on 2/12/20 at 9:18 am to OweO
Are All Local Governments Corrupt To Some Degree?
no, but all democrat run governments are corrupt to their cores from top to bottom
no, but all democrat run governments are corrupt to their cores from top to bottom
Posted on 2/12/20 at 9:32 am to VolsOut4Harambe
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Good lord dude, do you do anything besides post here
Okay.. But go look at other people who post here. My poster per day has probably gone down a lot the past year and a half, but either way.. Its a fricking message board. That's what you do. Post on it. EAD
Posted on 2/12/20 at 9:35 am to keakar
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no, but all democrat run governments are corrupt to their cores from top to bottom
Don't be ignorant. Republicans.. Democrats.. They are all still politicians. If you think one's party makes them less likely to be corrupt then you are naive.
Posted on 2/12/20 at 9:38 am to OweO
Do you just sit around all day thinking up random shite to post on this board? I thought there were rules against posting every random thing that pops into your head?
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