The Government’s Fat- (and Skinny) Cats


Bearing in mind that I too would hate to live in a country where one party rules for countless decades; I find the idea of giving “others” a chance to rule to be working against the very same people in whose eyes this is meant to appear fair.

Granted, limiting the number of years which a ruling party is allowed to rule pushes the party to get things done (or to, at least, appear to be doing so). Furthermore, it gives the ruled an opportunity to “fire” the ruling party, come the next elections, should they find the ruling party to be incompetent.

That’s the good thing with any form of governance where the people are ruled in turns and terms.

But there seems to be a negative effect that’s inevitably caused by giving a ruling party a limited number of years in office.

A political party is put in power for, usually, four years. Yet they are expected to solve (or, at the least: “better”) social ills that require decades to better or surmount.

That there is a seldom discussed issue that is worthy of our immediate attention. For it breeds an attitude that unavoidably leads to corruption.

What politicians then resort to — after realizing that they’re only given less than 4 years to solve social ills that require, at times, at the least, say, 40 years — is taking as much as they possibly can from the government. For a second term isn’t guaranteed.

So, they think, I presume, that: rather they steal from the government, only to be put back in power, come the next term; than to be all holy, only to be unemployed, come the next term.

(That is to say, rather they be in hell with a full tummy, than to starve in heaven.)




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— December 7, 2011.