Korrupta politiker i USA

Varför är misstron så stor i USA mot politik och politiker ? Det enkla svaret på den frågan är att det finns många, goda skäl för den misstron. USAs politiska historia är fylld av korruptionsskandaler. Skattemedel används inte sällan på  ett sätt som inte kan kallas annat än korrupt. Många prominenta politiker har hamnat i fängelse.

Här det senaste exemplet:

Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the New York Assembly, exploited his position as one of the most powerful politicians in the state to obtain millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, federal authorities said on Thursday as they announced his arrest on a sweeping series of corruption charges.

For years, Mr. Silver has earned a lucrative income outside government, asserting that he was a simple personal injury lawyer who represented ordinary people. But federal prosecutors said his purported law practice was a fiction, one he created to mask about $4 million in payoffs that he carefully and stealthily engineered for over a decade.

NYT