Come Back to Ethics

The election is over and you are declared the winner. Just think to yourself for a moment. What would be your first plan of action, and how could you maintain ethical decision making throughout your entire time in office. Ethics is defined as a set of principles of right conduct. It is also a theory or a system of moral values (Merriman/Webster online dictionary). Government Ethics is often times referred to as an oxy-moron. The reason for this is that our government does not use ethics in their decision making. When did a politician's campaign cash reserves start to be called a "war chest?" It makes you think what kind of attitude goes into making that money and just how its being used. (Heroux, 2011). Money has become the source and the root of all that is evil in American politics. The rulers of this money and the evil are lobbyist. Lobbyist are now running wild in politics. The amount of money involved in lobbying is given for a certain cause if you are for that cause, but it is intimately connected to the issue if you are an opponent of the cause. ( Heroux,2011). Many of our public officials have made it plan through their action that the money of the lobbyist have a bigger meaning to them than the welfare of the people. What has also come about is the fact that many decisions are made along racial lines. Politics in America has always been about race. It started with the writing of the Constitution and the compromises made by the people that founded this country in order to keep the southern states in the fold. ( Caruba, 2010). There are times that 90% of black communities are left out of decisions that are made. For so long politicians have ignored the rights and the problems that concern the minorities in American. All that said racism in America is not a one-way street, nor is it restricted to the black-white divide. ( Caruba,