Posted by Katie Smith on February 25, 2001 at 16:28:03:
In Reply to: What should we expect from our politicians? posted by Marc on February 21, 2001 at 14:31:29:
Please don't make fun of me but I am really scared. I am a thirteen year old jr. high school student and I am worried about all the politicians and the nuclear weapons. I am asking this message at this site because I think that this site is about telling the truth so will someone please tell me the truth PLEASE!
Are we going to get exploded by nuclear weapons???? What is this star wars thing and why are people afraid of missiles. Are terrorists really going to blow up americans? Why does everyone hate americans??
I am scared becasue I am american and I don't want to be blown up in a big bomb. Please help me. I'm scared.
: Should we expect moral perfection? Or should we expect them to do the job they were hired to do? Back in ancient times kings were considered Gods. People didn't have books, television, and the Internet. The kings had absolute power and control over who lives and who dies. Virgins were tossed into volcanoes. These people knew how to party!
: Things have changed since then. This is a democracy. We elect people to do a job. Our "leaders" really aren't leaders as much as public servants. They work for us. They are our employees. And we need to keep reminding them of that to keep them in their place, but that's a different subject. They don't wear a crown, they were a suit and get paid to do a job, and that job is to wisely spend the taxpayer's money and to pass laws to keep the good order of society.
: I think that we need to judge a politician on the basis of how good of a job he does doing what we hired him to do. If we hire a painter to paint our house, we don't care what his sex life is as long as he's getting his work done. I think it's time to chop down the pedestal and put these people to work on taxes and budgets and leave the great moral questions to our fine religious leaders like Jimmy Swaggart.
: In a perfect world politicians wouldn't lie. But when the voters elect politicians who lie over those who tell the truth then the voters shouldn't be surprised when they get caught being less that truthful. But in order for politicians to tell the truth, the voters are going to have to stop punishing honesty. The voters are going to have to be ready to face the truth and the hard decisions that the politicians have to face in passing fair laws that are good for the people. Some issues are tough issues and require tough choices and require a solution that is more complicated than a slogan. So when someone running for office tells you that global population is a real issue and it's not going away on it's own, listen to him.