Posted on 01/11/2023 9:07:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
Americans do not have tremendous respect for the honesty and ethical standards of car salesmen or journalists, but they still give people in these professions a higher rating for these characteristics than they give to members of Congress.
This week, as first reported Tuesday by the New York Post, Gallup released the results of a survey it conducted on how Americans perceive the honesty and ethical standards of people in different professions. […]
Only 2% of the respondents gave members of Congress a “very high” rating for honesty and ethical standards, while another 7% gave them a “high” rating. With a combined 9% of the Americans surveyed giving them either a “high” or a “very high” rating, members of Congress ranked 17th out of the 18 professions included in the survey for their honesty and ethical standards.
Telemarketers came in last. Like members of Congress, 2% of those surveyed gave them a “very high” rating for their honesty and ethical standards, but only 4% gave them a “high” rating. That combined 6% left telemarketers 3 points behind the combined 9% scored by members of Congress.
Still, while members of Congress managed to outrank telemarketers for their perceived honesty and ethical standards, they still trailed “car salespeople.” That profession got 2% of respondents to rank them “very high” and 8% to rank them “high.” This combined 10% put car salesmen one point ahead of members of Congress for their honesty and ethical standards.
Journalists managed to beat members of Congress by only one point (3 to 2) among those who ranked them “very high” for their honesty and ethical standards, but outscored them by 13 points (20 to 7) among those who ranked them “high” for their honesty and ethical standards. …
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Everyone hates politicians...except their own politicians. Then we happily re-elect them time and again. I guess it’s name recognition as much as anything else.
(That profession got 2% of respondents to rank them “very high” and 8% to rank them “high.”)
10% are especially brilliant!!
Yes but are the re-election of most establishment politicians legitimate or do they get cheated back into office? I don’t trust anything when it comes to politics in this country anymore. More aptly, most politicians are lawyers and who can honestly say they can trust a lawyer?
Never hear the expression “as crooked as a politician”?
That’s what I hear too. Are they including the Senate too, or just the House?
So. -one cartoon character asks another “Do all fairy tales start with ‘once upon a time’? No - replied the other. Sometimes they start with “If elected I promise....”
What the Propaganda Media calls "Journalists" are correctly identified as paid shills.
> Yes but are the re-election of most establishment politicians legitimate or do they get cheated back into office? <
Good point (see my tagline). I was talking more about opinions. Folks will tell me how much they hate politicians. But in the next breath they’ll tell me they’re going to vote to re-elect some local hack because he brought some funding into the region.
Or the hack helped someone they knew get a job somewhere.
Tip O’Neill was (mostly) right. All politics is local.
I think journalists are worse.
“It could probably be shown with facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal element excepting Congress” - Mark Twain
Still above child molesters, though.
You are correct. Most voters, in my opinion, don’t take the time to see if the person they are voting has done anything while in office. Legislation, co-sponsering useful legislation...not frivolous bills for show that will go nowhere.
Back when the Oklahoma Senator Inhofe was running for re-election he did not campaign. When asked why he said “Everybody knows my positions on issues and my name”. One of my relatives in Oklahoma sent me that comment. Illustrates exactly what you commented on smoky.
And that is what I think most politicians count on once they have been elected to office.
I would support a (R) congressmen before a journalists because they are a greater problem with lies cover ups bogus stories that reads like a democrat comic book.
Yeah, at least a -4...
They left out...
Lower than whale poop.
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