General Chat

Answer = Yes

ALL are after what they can get out of it, while they are in power.
As most do not stay in power long...they get greedy.
Hence we sometimes see this on the news, where they don't cover it up well enough.

To be a politician.....is to be able to lie...and make people believe what you say.

I like to think that all politicians start out with genuine aims and hopes and dreams and go into it thinking they can change things, but I suspect that as they get more powerful they become more interested in personal success and power and that's where the corruption starts.

Often, if I watch the Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition debating on TV, I don't feel like I'm watching two people with aspirations to run the country. It sometimes seems like they're two little kids in the school playground having a "My dad's got a bigger car than yours" argument.

In NZ at the moment there is one MP causing a lot of media coverage of him and what he/and his party may have done in the past with party donations etc. What I want to know is what are they (the government) diverting our attention away from with all this childish behavour. :-)

Michelle

Politicians are 75% in it for what they can get out of it - no different from the vast majority of people.
Bending rules to suit our condition is in no way confined to MPs. My good lady tells me that the helpers at jumble sales often take advantage of their first look at objects for sale.
It was rife in my first office job; then in the army; and then 30 years in the police - taking advantage without actually doing anything illegal.
Afraid it's actually called "human nature". , My apologies if that is too cynical for some, but it all stems from being brought up in the days of the black market.

Happy days

yes BR you are so right ...............

Not really a lot to be said for this goverment ......Far wores than any I,ve seen ........Dont really know what they are standing for !!??

At least with some leaders we knew it was going to be bad !!!!

Michelle its the same in the UK. Our media cover the US elections as though they were our own. And they go on for so long by the time the actual election arrives, we're so sick of it we couldn't care less who gets elected as long as its over and we can spend time reporting stuff going on in our own country.

As for Mick's question.....errr......well there's nothing to debate really....they are all liars and thieves!

Sorry but politics is the last thing I would want to discuss at the moment, we are in the lead up to a general election in November and all media is centered on politics.

I agree with you Huia about that MP (really I'm not following you around)

And why in earth do we have to have so much coverage of the American Presidential Race/Election in our news here in NZ.

Michelle

I stood for parliament on a couple of occasions. Maybe that is why I didnt get in, not a liar or thief.

I think a lot of them are just deluded people who believe what they are told to believe without thinking for themselves.

I have to say I have never trusted a certain MP who is currently in strife here in NZ.

Huia.

- Discuss this proposition

- Behave yourselves.

xxxx mick