-----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....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 21:52:44 +0000 (UTC) jim bell > <jdb10...@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 > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQGcBAEBCAAGBQJbzxgGAAoJEPn/Y5FXPbRCz8oL/R4bA+W8DKLLVo/6wdjdtxgo FjPyVAQLMDscTzzXrANQYOjajHuFw5qdkFhe6KsHbX6opdA0x54NmDbrueqk8Xlv o2JW8Qwhi5SWYziB6cpDjI6SWOTE7pA0z2T3ejkfgTrGHf+AAVU7F+c3cPa63uy/ YFP7eRK43CT+CCJvUICpj9TcVygswR7dpk3ehiD3ws9dWbvCB1t2+yq3UKQpXRdU JZScgpqcVb6ytp1RsdNYAvu30I5ezPsrdZAdtdZ00zbHHD1/MFnl4l0gq91CWnSd ii+rj8zINHVSg3qLVVX+meQWmkmJzdwdYDg4+1gzg1esd/pFy7QkEs6NWOiwBLZI QW6kjql620lUAX7ISsnv6dWiyR/P14ivGEdKGZ5DEzKvgb2ZSIoIJ1+VSrS9IasP F9bDt90UOlbMVJUv9uYdSCtu9LkCZlqkz89p0i6ln0B0DgYaT3QhlyHoo8oG3Ogb 2NAHnLZQuH5NR1lmJxmbbx/W1Xq+m8rkVUi4TTPOnQ== =cDtI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----