Posted by
Dave Kooker on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:35:27 AM
As I have mentioned before, I do some of my best thinking while I am sitting down enjoying a fine hand rolled Nicaraguan cigar or while I am driving down the road. Many times I am doing both. While I was inching my way home last night in the Jacksonville Florida traffic, I began to contemplate the thought; which is worse a prostitute or a politician? Both categories do not rate very highly on the social approval scale. Per the gallop poll on the National Review, Congress’s approval rating was only 14%.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Yjc5ZjY4MzY4NWM3MThkNDlmYzQ2MGFjMWQxZDcyMmU=
I would suspect that even ex-governor Eliot Spitzer’s prostitute would have a higher social approval rating than that.
Quite simply, prostitution is the act or practice of engaging in sexual intercourse for money. Someone solicits the proposal of sex to a willing customer who is willing to pay the agreed price. The parties in the arrangement are willing participants and both sides receive the goods and services, which are agreed upon then business transaction is complete. No harm is done to the willing customer except for the chance of contacting something that does not wash off with Ajax and water. The only reason I can think of why prostitution is illegal because the government has not taxed it yet.
Even to us law abiding citizens, let’s be honest. One way or another, money has to be spent to engage in the act of sex. A single man has to pay for diner, gifts, movies, drinks, and dancing for the chance of intimacy. The moral family Judeo/Christian man buys his wife a ring, a car, and a house with furniture in exchange of the long-term privileges of intimacy. Even with the institution of marriage, there is no guarantee that sex is included in the deal. A married man can only go on empty promises for so long then has to seek other opportunities.
Now let’s consider politicians. Politicians also solicit themselves in their constituent boundaries. Politicians make promises to perform actions in exchange for campaign contributions and constituent votes. For example: ‘If you vote for me I will raise taxes on the rich and I will double your government entitlements’. If in fact the politician is elected and sworn in, the problems are just beginning. There is absolutely no guarantee that the politician will ever keep the verbally agreed contracted terms with the constituent voter. Only one side of the business transaction has benefited. Also while the politician is in power there is no constraint of the politician’s spending habits with the taxpayer’s coffer or the amount of regulations applied toward the constituent.
Prostitution all business parties receive agreed goods & services and last a few hours. Politicians no guarantee of receiving the agreed goods & services and can last years. So which is worse?
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