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In reply to the discussion: Social Justice is the ONLY Path to Economic Prosperity for Workers in This Country [View all]Baitball Blogger
(46,570 posts)Skirting government process generally means overlooking due process of law and equal protection of the law. I don't need pork, if everything about the process sets up a corrupting system that permeates the entire community. Pork, sometimes is just a bribe disguised as an inducement.
As a minority who lives in a right-wing community that is steep in good ole boy methods that uses the small government form of public administration, I am very attuned to the corrupting and inequitable society that is supported by such methods. Neo-liberals are part of that equation, because they are too quick to bargain with these people.
Public money has the capability of becoming a corrupting force in a society. As people see how certain individuals are "induced" with construction jobs and other benefits that only a government body can bestow, they turn around and use the same procedures in their own residential communities. In my community, this has gone on for so long that people are not concerned about breaches of fiduciary responsibility.
Frankly, if you want equality in our country, you have to commit and stop the bleeding from every orifice.
Not every "gift" that gets negotiated that claims to benefit minorities is truly a gift. There is usually something poisonous that will stymie whatever good it might bring.