-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 10/23/18 12:16 AM, jim bell wrote:
On Monday, October 22, 2018, 11:08:42 AM PDT, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 21:52:44 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
NEWS from Science NewsApp
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-corruption-tops-5th-annual-chapman.htm l
"More Americans are afraid than ever,> "1. Corrupt government officials (73.6 percent)2. Pollution of oceans, rivers and lakes (61.6 percent)te]
notice that the objects under 'scientific study' aka american subjects are afraid of 'corrupt' agents, not of government per se. And it would be pretty funny to find out what 'corruption' means to the fine 'scientists' doing the poll.
Well, what we need to do is learn about the methodology of this poll. Did the surveyers merely ask, "What are you most afraid of", or did they suggest the subjects: Was the example "Corrupt government employees" provided to them?
Also, I suspect that a lot of the results of this survey reflect, more or less, the product of the news media's commentary over the last few years. The news media, most of them anyway, loved Obama, and many of them currently hate Trump. That position has presumably rubbed off onto the public. And, I suspect that "corrupt government" is often, even usually defined as "government controlled by people that I don't want to see control it". That may indeed be "corrupt", but perhaps they have no problem with "corruption" if done by the people they WANT to see in control of government.
In the US that is probably true. Note - i dislike ALL of these candidates and presidents but here is my rundown on corruption of the last few presidents. Nixon - moderately corrupt but he got caught Carter - not very corrupt. The thing with his brother being the touch of corruption. Reagan - moderately corrupt Ford - not effective enough to be corrupt Bush I - moderately corrupt Clinton - heavy corruption Bush II - more corrupt that Bush I Obama - not very corrupt but very authoritarian He did eventually get rid of Hillary Trump - heavilly corrupt businessman Hillary - probably more corrupt than Bill
Jim Bell
Lets look at this with real events and try to figure it out. Where i live out in the sticks of the Northeast it is pretty corrupt. A town clerk actually pocketed over a million dollars of tax payments in a small town. ...And so far she has gotten away with it. - --- Marina
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