Crooked As A Dog's Hind Leg

Published by Dick Schaefer, Award-winning, Unpaid, Part-time Contributing Writer; Amateur Investigative Blogger; Aspiring Photo-Journalist; and Missouri Tiger Fan

Date:  12/9/2010
Post:  1,266

"Crooked as a dog's hind leg!"  Have y'all ever known anyone like that?  When a person is that crooked, they're really, really crooked ........ downright corrupt as a matter of fact!

Well, I've known a few crooks in my time.  I've known crooked car salesmen, crooked insurance salesmen, crooked union officials, crooked business people, crooked politicians and crooked government officials.

Now when ya have a crooked politician who has gotten lucky and managed to get himself or herself elected to office so as to become a crooked government official, that's when you've got a particularly nasty situation.  Ya see, we can be on the look out for all those other crooks like crooked car salesmen, crooked insurance salesmen, crooked union officials and crooked business people.  We can simply avoid dealing with those crooks.  As a matter of fact, we don't have to deal with them at all, and we can tell our friends to be on the look out for these people and not to deal with them either.  And eventually, when we've managed to warne enough honest people about these garden variety crooks, we can put the crooks out of business because almost no one will deal with them any longer.  An exposed crook has only one remaining option, and that is to pack up his belongings and move along to the next town!

But not so with a crooked politician who eventually gets elected and becomes a crooked government official!  Nosiree!  These types of crooks are much harder to deal with!  Exposing them and driving them out of office is a very difficult, time-consuming and unpleasant task!

As I see it, here are the problems with exposing and driving crooked government officials out of office:

1. Many times the crooked politicians and crooked government officials who have preceded the current crop of crooked people in public office have designed ingenious, cumbersome and time-consuming procedures for learning about, exposing and driving the crooked government officials who have succeeded them out of office.
2. The crooked politicians and crooked government officials who currently occupy positions of power and influence have various means at their ready disposal by which they can dissuade, intimidate and otherwise obstruct the honest, tax-paying folks from learning about and exposing their crooked decisions and official misconduct.
3. Powerful crooked politicians and crooked government officials become very adept at currying favor with other powerful crooked politicians and crooked government officials and they quickly learn the art of building a constituency of support amongst their political base, amongst the news media and amongst law enforcement officials.  They work all day long at these dishonest tasks of building their protective networks, leaving little or no time left over for performing the duties of the offices to which they were elected in the first place.
4. The tax-paying public is just too doggone busy working to earn a living for their families and to also pay taxes to the crooked politicians and crooked government officials who arrogantly hold them in contempt.  And because of this, too few members of the tax-paying public have the time, energy or inclination to follow the crooked politicians and crooked government officials around in hopes of keeping them honest.  The crooked politicians and crooked government officials just wear us all down over time!

So, these are the problems with exposing and ridding ourselves of crooked politicians and crooked government officials, as I see them at least.

Now, as to the solutions, well that's a far more difficult matter!  I wish I had a bunch of highly effective solutions I could offer you.  But I don't!

Tell ya what!  Why don't we work on the solutions together?!  Let me hear your ideas and suggestions.  I'll collate and compile them all and publish a consolidated list of solutions at a later date.  Right now, I'm just too tired to continue writing this commentary piece.  I guess the doggone "crooked as a dog's hind leg" politicians and government officials have worn me down ...... for tonight anyway.

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