Why politics in the world revolves around economic benefits rather tha human value?
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What you are describing is the politics of greed, supply side economics is one of the main factors. Giving tax cuts to the very rich while cutting programs to the poor is a symptom of this greed. \n\n I look at it this way, if you have a pile of three boxes setting on the floor and you want to move them if you lift the top box that is the only one that moves. But on the other hand if you lift the bottom box all three move. \n\nOk, the top box represents the rich and very rich, the middle box represents the middle class and the bottom box represents the poor. Our government, lead by president Bush has lifted the top box and left the other two behind and that is what is wrong with the "me" politics of the repuglican party. It is time for a change starting in November. We need more democrats in the house and senate to provide a check and balance to the politics of greed. \n\n No person or family in the United States legally should be without the necessity's of life. Food, shelter and health care.
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Besides many politicians' power lust, 2 general sides, and a few "odd" issues contribute.  Less minor issues like the war, abortion, labor unions, education, and old-fasioned straight ticket voters are all things I would lump into "values voters" for the purpose of this discussion.  They generally decide canidates based on how they will affect just one issue that they see as most important.  But the real culprit is a thing called WORLDVIEW, and there are two major ones that are clashing for control right now.  One, the Conservatives and the other, Liberals (not to be confused with Conservatives and Liberals in Europe).  Conservatives TEND to believe in old absolutes(however sometimes changing a rule is good), and the Liberals TEND to want to move away from the way things have always been done(but sometimes we do need to leave things be).  TO some this might sound trivial, but it involves issues of life and death.  For instance; Liberal thought on life and death says no death penalty, yes to abortion and assisted suicide.  Conservatives say yes to the death penalty, no to abortion and assisted suicide.  If those issues don't get people polorized, then how about tax issues?  \nI won't go into details there, but now I come out with the real deal:  The reason we don't see nearly as much cross-the-party-line cooperation is the prevelence of RELATIVISM:  That is, "whatever I think is right."  THis means that new-schoolers, (liberals) see issues however it pleases them, but ABSOLUTISTS (conservatives) can't leave thier long-established values behind to pursue whatever they want.  We are fast approaching a time when most Relativists will have NO common ground with absolutists.  If Relativism continues to gain hold with society, we will have no basis for self-control.  If I want to kill you, thats OK, because thats what I see as best for me.  If I want to lie and steal from you, thats OK because thats right for me.  And once people say that, there is no reasoning with them.  There is no way a relativist and someone who believes in trascendent values can cooperate under most circumstances.  That is the cause of this polorization.  If you think I'm nuts because you are a relativist, then you just proved my point: there is no way you can agree with me without changing your worldview.
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Roads are the basis of most economies if not all. Transport of goods is easier if roads are good.
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Capitalism - it provides incentive for people to improve their situation, and in doing so, the rest of society.  Socialism allows everyone to depend on someone else to do the work.  There is no incentive to go beyond the minimum required.\n\nIf you appeal to a man's noble side, you won't get much.  Appeal to his self interest, and he'll accomplish a whole lot more.  Capitalism (with certain builtin safeguards) works a whole lot better.\n\nPS:  Go green!
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ECONOMICS is primarily about the efficient use of scarce resources.\n\nCant get any simpler than this
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most economic/political systems can be successful models if followed to their definitions, but the fact is humans follow them thus they change and evolve into something else casted by human natural greed and evil, soviet union fell down though it was a communist system, china now has product of all sorts being sold all over the world from silly toys to electronics to cars u name it, any growing power has to be hated by other powers since it becomes a potential economic threat (if not consist other forms of threats as well)\n\nthis is the way i see it from the outside, takes someone living inside china to tell u how it works from the inside regarding how people feel and stuff, me i never been there, but i know one thing, i admire chinese culture in the sense that they originated a lot of good things (martial arts,homeopathic medicines and chinese food-yum)
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Political freedom is ultimately inseparable from economic freedom. Where you have one, the other will follow. Deprive people of one, and the other will wither.
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Normally, political beliefs are fixed somewhere along a 'spectrum'.\n\nUsually, from an economic perspective, the left is for equality in income: at its extreme, that means the goovernment giving everybody the same salary regardless of their job, at a more moderate level, it means higher taxes for the rich than for the poor. The right would be for less taxation and people earning money on a supply-and-demand principle.\n\nSocially, the left is generally for large government projects aiming to provide equal standards (in education, health, insurance, retirement pensions, etc.) to all people. These are usually centrally operated and require high taxes to maintain. The right believes in trusting private corporations to do this at whatever price they choose.\n\nAgain, socially, the left tends to support 'progressive' ideas like racial equality, immigration, gay marriage, drug decriminalisation, abortion, etc. The right percieves tradition as an important basis for lawmaking, and often is opposed to many of these things.\n\nNot everything can be categorised along a left/right spectrum. Globalisation vs. nationalism, for example: the left used to be more globally-minded than the right; now I'm not sure if that's true. Religiously-motivated politics are often thought of as 'the right', but there are groups like 'Christian socialists' too.
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Well in politics they are gng to work for the betterment of society and the people at large..isn't that a better cause?\n\nI guess you are referring to LOK PARITRAN..\n\nAnother reason is..if each one of us want to take up job and settle with a good pay and do nothing about the society..ain't we being selfish? And well we blame the politicians for doing nothing good..\n\nso joining politics too is for the betterment of out country just as how technology is.
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probably because of government and economic differences.
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There are some benefits.  For example, if you work on an assembly line that makes cars, the marketing department of the car company influences the public to buy the product you produce.  This helps "move product" and pays your wages.  However, the over commercialization and corporate blight of all public spaces has no real advantage to society.
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Economy is good when the people feel that it is improving just like increase in employment opportunities, decrease in prices of goods and government services are reaaly beneficial to the people.
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The interesting thing about the global economy is that pertains to the entire world and all of its countries. The global economy must be healthy in order for nations to prosper economically, also, the economy can't exist without money - thus we must have enough fair trade to let less wealthy nations get involved in exportation. The idea of fair trade is definitely one of the most essential issues when discussing the global economy because of the monopolization that certain countries having on certain items, this only pushes the less wealthy countries to the side and lessens the chances of their possibly prosperity. The global economy should be fair. Fair for everyone in order to get a bunch of money. That's what life is all about, getting money. MONEY=HAPPINESS.
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Because most people try to think in terms of right or wrong. The ability to think of what is popular or in the best political interest does not come to mind. There is also the fact that we are never told the really important parts because it considered"not in the national interest" for us to Know. One last thing. Most Americans don't have enough money to be considered for the presidency.
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Politics and Morality are both relative terms.\nUnfortunately for us, they both happen to be totally unrelated to each other !
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You bet it is.  It's not about freedom, opportunity, integrity, honesty, or any other attribute of which you may imagine politics should be.  \n\nThe bottom line is money and POWER.  At the same time, there is poetic justice here.  They fall just as fast as they rise.
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I value a candidate who cares about benefitting the nation as opposed to being a religious zealot.  Often times, it seems the religious zealots are too busy worrying about "values" as opposed to dealing with internal issues and foreign relations, etc.