An Inconvenient Truth: a lot of hot air bursts my bubble

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[music|jesus and mary chain/ the darklands]

Al Gore's new documentary about Global Warming is an ozone-thin-veiled ad for his next presidential campaign. However, this doesn't unnerve me as i believe once a politician, always a politician at the core. What makes this propaganda inadmissible as a minor laughable party-piece is that it directs many

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'A huge problem is that politicians need votes from the public, regardless of their good or bad intentions. In order to get people's votes and remain in power in order accomplish such (good or bad) aspirations they are often pressed to please in a round-about manner. If a misled populace is set on inappropriate housing, what should be done?'

That is a well stated problem and question. One reason the American Government is not a democracy (it is a Federal Republic) is to hold the representatives of the people accountable to two other branches of government and to allow for their removal (quickly in the House, slower in the Senate) when they stray too far from the common good. The problem you describe (vote buying from the largest voting block) has come to dominate modern politics because the government has stepped in to roles it has no legal standing to perform. The taxing of the working population to give politicians money to provide programs for people that were not taxed to receive the programs is why America separated from England in the first place. The existence of Federally funded public housing to use just one of many examples, would cause any of the founding fathers to not recognize the government they created.
The Louisiana problem is a city and state government whose primary function was to receive the rest of the countries' money and distribute it to their supporters and cronies. You will not hear the Governor of Louisiana or the Mayor of New Orleans complain too much about FEMA as they are passing out the billions of dollars it has provided for their use in re-building their political base (I mean State and City).