The famous quote ‘Words may lie but actions will always tell the truth’ speaks volumes for so many ideas and it seems to be the same for backroom deals. Backroom deals are made by powerful or influential people about ideas and control what happens next in an indirect manner. It’s a major problem in today’s society and they seem to never go away as an abundance of people use this for selfish and inhumane reasons; some being companies, the economy, society, and the government, including presidents and senators are all corrupted by secret backroom deals that can be addressed by having all deals made, written, documented and monitored by an unbiased trustee that we the people decide.
Backroom deals relates to politics without principle because …show more content…
The government has done a backroom deal with housing associations in order to hide its plan to extend the right to buy policy and this means tenants can buy their houses but it also means less affordable houses and more money for the government (Frances Perraudin). It seems that the only people who benefit from this is the government and housing companies, leaving the people who do by houses paying for it and this leads back to the idea that people in the government only care about power and money. Also in Virginia, republican lawmakers have resorted to backroom deals in order to kill a package of gun safety bills (chris@agusta) and in a world where we need it the most, the government takes away virginia’s law that will protect them from a certain problem that has been killing people and growing by the numbers and why? For their own personal gain and power and it doesn’t stop there. In 2005, Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich committed a series of solicit bribes and wire fraud and the FBI started investigating him and his treachery but he was not impeached as governor until 2009 when the scandal broke out to the people of Illinois (Althia Raj); now even today in our city of Philadelphia, we are dealing with our fair share of backroom deals. As we move along from backroom …show more content…
John Quincy Adams ran against Andrew Jackson and through backroom deals, that people believe are corrupt even today, won the presidential election of 1824 (Freeman Stevenson). Even our President now, Obama, has said to have a secret deal with Iran that two congressman put to light. This deal protects Iran’s nuclear power plants and military facilities and absolutely no one knew about it until now. “One of those two secret side-deals allows the Iranians to conduct their own inspections” (Pompeo). Then a presidential runner says this deal is one of the most dangerous and might even cause another war. “The most recent revelation that Iran will be selecting its own inspectors to verify the nature of its nuclear program is made all the more egregious by the fact that as the single largest contributor to the IAEA United States taxpayers will be paying for a farce that is a direct threat to their own security.”(Ted Cruz). To many people this was not the smartest move from the Obama and nor is it right that he can conduct this secret backroom deal when it can potentially harm everyone that resides in the
Backroom deals relates to politics without principle because …show more content…
The government has done a backroom deal with housing associations in order to hide its plan to extend the right to buy policy and this means tenants can buy their houses but it also means less affordable houses and more money for the government (Frances Perraudin). It seems that the only people who benefit from this is the government and housing companies, leaving the people who do by houses paying for it and this leads back to the idea that people in the government only care about power and money. Also in Virginia, republican lawmakers have resorted to backroom deals in order to kill a package of gun safety bills (chris@agusta) and in a world where we need it the most, the government takes away virginia’s law that will protect them from a certain problem that has been killing people and growing by the numbers and why? For their own personal gain and power and it doesn’t stop there. In 2005, Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich committed a series of solicit bribes and wire fraud and the FBI started investigating him and his treachery but he was not impeached as governor until 2009 when the scandal broke out to the people of Illinois (Althia Raj); now even today in our city of Philadelphia, we are dealing with our fair share of backroom deals. As we move along from backroom …show more content…
John Quincy Adams ran against Andrew Jackson and through backroom deals, that people believe are corrupt even today, won the presidential election of 1824 (Freeman Stevenson). Even our President now, Obama, has said to have a secret deal with Iran that two congressman put to light. This deal protects Iran’s nuclear power plants and military facilities and absolutely no one knew about it until now. “One of those two secret side-deals allows the Iranians to conduct their own inspections” (Pompeo). Then a presidential runner says this deal is one of the most dangerous and might even cause another war. “The most recent revelation that Iran will be selecting its own inspectors to verify the nature of its nuclear program is made all the more egregious by the fact that as the single largest contributor to the IAEA United States taxpayers will be paying for a farce that is a direct threat to their own security.”(Ted Cruz). To many people this was not the smartest move from the Obama and nor is it right that he can conduct this secret backroom deal when it can potentially harm everyone that resides in the