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Originally Posted by LarryBible
One of the most troubling problems in the US today IMHO is defiance of the law. 13 Million people come to the country illegally, no problem. Somebody cheats the government out of over $30,000 in income tax, make them the Treasury Secretary. Find them guilty of 11 infractions of congressional rules, give them a censure and leave them in their congressional seat.
The country has gone to hell in a hand basket with no respect for the law and no one seems to care.
Common sense and common decency is a thing of the past.
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Do you really think it was any different 50, or 100, years ago. If anything, the level of corruption in government is probably less today because the media is willing to report some of these "indiscretions." Can you imagine today's media during Andrew Jackson's administration, or even JFK's?
George Washington actually made Hamilton the first Treasury Secretary, he promptly did things that should have landed him in prison. Washington told him to clean up his act and let him stay, now he's on the ten dollar bill.
What you have just "discovered" has been business as usual for every government on the planet for as long as there have been governments. It's also fun to read old american newspaper editorials; they are full of "hell in a hand basket" rants, starting from the John Addams administration; those kids who don't remember the revolution have no respect.... blah, blah, blah... get off my pasture.