By Les Dunaway
Four stories were in the news this week. At first glance, three were financial, our normal subject area, and the other was about character and morality. However, upon reflection – which I had plenty of time for as I had a badly scattered series of appointments – all four are about what happens when voters fail to heed the the admonition which titles this article “Know your Politician”.
The articles were:
The common thread tying together the travesties reported in these stories is people in high offices who should never have been elected and who would not have been elected if their constituents had followed the maxim “Know your Politician”.
Think about it: in the first story we have a Congressman behaving like a skid-row flasher; in the second, several national political figures collude with corporate executives to portray a very bad (and probably un-Constitutional) decision as less of a rape of the taxpayers; in the third the numbers have uncovered the failure of our top elected official to perform duties required by law and the last again documents the cooked books which have been used to hide the depth of our national debt.
Do you believe that American voters would have elected these people if they had known the depth of dishonesty and stupidity they were voting for? Fools and knaves will be elected but the electorate is paying attention to who they vote for and how those they elect behave, both before and after election, those few will be exposed and negated by the good majority.
Take a look in the mirror! What has the person you see there done in the past several election cycles to “know your Congressman or Mayor or President or City Councilman or …”. Are you proud to look that person in the eye or are you where Pogo found himself “We have met the enemy and he is us”.