Blog #7 Is the US government corrupt Review

In this contemptuous rant, Bblake, a college student from Fredericksburg Texas, tried to express his notion of corruption within our Democracy. The article, Blog #7 Is the US government corrupt?, lacked well defined examples of past or current corruption cases. Any time the word “Corruption” is mentioned it automatically catches attention; however, my attention was lost while reading this article.

Bblake provides the proper definition of corruption at the beginning but following the definition he mentions that “our governments biggest downfall is promising all these certain things, but never holding up there side of the bargain.” But yet, he fails to provide examples of active bribery. Instead he mentions that “Obama has promised to win the war, but he keeps sending more and more troops across sea.” How is this corruption? A president trying to win the war by sending more troops only indicates that he is indeed trying to win the war. How can a war be defeated without a proper sized army? This comment was irrelevant to the topic.

His Health Care Bill example lacked facts, it only showcased opinions. He claims “This new bill is going to give all the power to the strongest people, and screw over the ones that work hard for [their] money…” I was waiting for him to include a fact or anything to prove this argument. “If/when the health care bill is approved the wealthy are going to get [their] care first…” How? Where are the facts?

He feels that “government officials worry about themselves” and not citizens. He argues that the Justice Department shouldn’t have sued Arizona over its Immigration Law because it helps decrease “drug cartel[s] and any other crime that is going on.” He also mentions that “the only bad thing about this new law in Arizona is that corrupt law enforcement is going to racial profile.” Racial profiling is not a form of corruption but rather a civil rights violation. Instead, he could have indicated that law enforcements stationed within the US- Mexico border will more than likely accept bribes from drug cartels, increasing the chance of corruption within the border.

The conclusion failed to “conclude” his argument. It provided a rather irrelevant message, first by saying “I am tired of all the promises that we get by our government. If they held on to [their] promises, our country would be succeeding. Instead we are going into more and more debt...” How does this tie in with corruption? It doesn’t. Second, I feel that his only decent example of corruption should have been added to the body paragraph and not the conclusion.

Overall the message was lost with mere examples of broken “promises” rather than true examples of “bribery, extortion, embezzlement…criminal mischief, including drug cartel[s], money scams, and many other crimes.” Do I think the government is corrupt? I wouldn’t after reading this article