The Pros And Cons Of Corruption In America

The Progress movement or as many refer to as the Progressive era, was a time frame where Americans joined in varying groups to advocate reform across the United States. To elaborate, Progressives believed in widespread change for child labor, industrialization, government, racial reform, and women’s rights. Countless stories of corruption in these areas were brought to light in the Progressive era mostly due to the published writings of Muckrakers. Muckrakers, were journalists who wrote for popular magazines that attempted to expose corrupt political activities from their investigative journalism. Furthermore, I will discuss and compare these groups and their attempts for changes in the rights of child labor, women, acknowledgment of corrupt government practices, racial relations, and industrialization reform.

America’s foundation in a sense was founded on racism. Although we live in a much more different, accepting time, it wasn’t too long ago that there was segregation and extreme racism in our society. We as a society have now since evolved and are now more tolerable and diverse then what we once were. However, there still are cases in America that show just how far we still need to develop our tolerance.

Government corruption has been going on for too long and only got worse when President Obama walked into office. The people haven’t seen freedom in this country for a long time. We have been lied to many times and the people have been brainwashed by false information by the media. America has increased in corruption, the email scandal with Hillary Clinton, and Obama wanting to pardon Hillary.

“The evil that men do, lives after them, The good is oft’ interred with their bones”. The evil that one decides to do will be on their own conscious although it will still affect the people around them.

We have a general belief that power corrupts. Truth be told the inverse is valid. What ruins the hearts and psyches of men is our egoic conviction that we are helpless and must secure ourselves and our false conviction for fear we become corrupt.

By definition, a government is supposed to develop, maintain, and protect society. Unfortunately the United States government suffers from the plague that is corruption, preventing the authority from benefiting the people in many ways. By no means is this epidemic new on an institutional level as we see examples going back to the founding fathers of this great nation. A popular illustration of bureaucratic corruption in the United States includes the two party system that has been known to be flawed, limiting voters of their choices. Obviously this impacted politics, but how does corruption like this affect the average American citizen? An example where this is the case includes the Pizzagate Conspiracy involving political figures sexually

My heroes have always been those working to protecting the defenseless, becoming a voice for the marginalized and empowering those powerless. My dream is to make a positive impact through the legal system for both environmental issues and aboriginal issues to continue a legacy of social justice. Writers like George Orwell, Hannah Arendt and Samantha Nutt have expanded my critical lens and led me to insight. I believe the study of politics to be an invaluable discipline, as it can provide a framework for governments to protect citizens from the corruption of power. As a first-generation Indo-Canadian woman, born in British Columbia, I have the invaluable opportunity to be part of two worlds. This has enabled me to have a view point of an immigrant

A bribe is to persuade someone to act in one's favor, typically illegally or dishonestly, by a gift of money or other inducements. Many companies have been accused of bribery within their organization. Some of America's most well-known companies have been accused of this crime. Famous brands we all know such as Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett-Packard, Tyson Foods, Ralph Lauren, Wal-Mart and many more have all allegedly been responsible for giving money or other benefits in exchange for favors that will bend the law. “Today, corruption costs the global economy some $2.6 trillion every year, or 5 percent of global GDP”, according to the World Economic Forum. In the United States, stricter enforcement has increased and more companies have been caught;

Ahmad N. (2002). Corruption and Government Regulations : An Empirical Analysis. The Bangladesh Development Studies , Vol. 28, No. 4 pp. 29-51.

The United States of America is one of the best countries in the world. The country considers its start as a nation to be 1776, and since then, America has stood for freedom all around the world. The USA has had military supremacy for years; considered one of the only superpowers in the world currently. Most importantly, however, is that it is a melting pot of different ethnic groups and cultures. Sadly, most places in America do not contain this important standard of no prejudice. After the Plessy v. Ferguson case, subtle racism became more abundant throughout the south, and although the government resolved main problem in the 60’s, racism still abides on both ends today.

Racism, as bad as it is, has built this country. America’s history is predominantly littered with this terrible social concept of enslaving a race and treating them as second class citizens. Even though slavery and racist laws were abolished years ago, people today are still impacted by this issue. Humans are not naturally racist, rather a racist system was put into force that altered our history for good and for worse.

If we read the News today, we could see that the government all over the world is corrupt. According to US Legal, government corruption is when government leaders abuse their political power to extract and accumulate for private enrichment (US Legal, Inc.)[1]. Technically, this is a bad thing because when government leaders use their power for their benefit, it does not necessarily mean that it is beneficial to the public and the society. To prove or disprove this argument, I decided to run an econometric analysis to see whether government corruption hinders or helps economic development.

In any large, organized system where there is leadership, there will be corruption. It is merely a matter of the extent that corruption exists. In the case of our national government, there seems to be, from a very superficial and quick glance, professionalism and order, with recent years being an exception to this. If one is to look deeper, however, more and more corruption can be seen. For example, in congress, there are millions of dollars being “donated” to congress people by lobbyists, many of whom used to be congresspeople themselves, before leaving to work for companies who reward them with money for serving them while in congress. These congresspeople are supposed to be serving the people they represent, not companies and lobbyists, but since only one of these groups is giving them large sums of money, they are only representing one. Our executive branch also oftentimes served financial interests before the people of the country. For example, Obama did nothing to punish those responsible for the 2008 economic crash because they were part of a bank that donated him a large amount of money. More recently Donald Trump may have taken money from a Russian company in return for relaxing sanctions on Russia, although this is far from confirmed. In even more recent events, some of Trump’s employees and advisors are being indicted and investigated by the FBI for their relationship with Russia, suggesting some corruption there. This corruption is by no means a recent

“Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of,” says Pratibha Patil, India’s 12th president. Corruption within society hinders its ability to properly function and affects mankind. While it is in effect, corruption will continue to tarnish society’s mores. In Hamlet, Shakespeare uses the motifs of disease and decay to exhibit that moral corruption destroys society.

In 2010 India was ranked 87th out of 178 countries in Transparency International 's Corruption Perceptions Index