Why does everyone hate mps

I don't know how they got involved but when I made it to my quarters the two MP's were there to help. They helped me get her in my POV. The Corporal cautioned me to drive carefully to the Hospital and offered to provide a lights and siren escort.

He then took off like a bat out of Hell. I don't think he ever checked his rear view mirror. I lost him before we ever got out of the MOQ area.

I drove the speed limit and only saw him as he occasionally crested a hill on Basilone Rd, with lights still going. At that point I'd been awake about 40 hours. I made it home, but fell asleep in the foyer with my feet sticking out the front door. The same MP's responded. I guess a neighbor thought I was drunk or dead.

The two Marines got me to my couch, took off my boots, offered me congratulations and left; closing the door behind them. I think MP's are just peachy. We responded to medical emergencies and often arrived before the medical personnel. First aid training came in handy! Cpl John Dickinson - I choose to believe he was not nervous. He was just going to accomplish the mission, or he wanted to see how fast his cruiser would really go. Sir, I was stationed at CPR. Pendleton Sir, I was stationed at Cp.

Pendleton from as a MP working my way up from Patrolman to Watch Commander and made many runs from the 51Area to the main hospital in the 20 area and for what reason the young mpeg had for giving you an escort and then leaving you behind is unexplainable to me.

We never gave escorts unless it was life threatening. SSgt Junior Dunn - Her situation was not life threatening, but I don't know what his dispatch information was or even if he received another dispatch as we got under way. SSG Join to see. For any of the above reasons or others not recounted. SPC Mark Hocker 5 y. I have things I could say from my time in Germany but no one would believe me been awhile looks like things have changed since I was in and I didn't bother with on spot corrections had better things to do like looking for possible car bombs yes car bombs in Germany.

SPC Randall Eichelberger 5 y. SrA Travis Rodenburg 4 y. I always thought it was funny when I'd pull over a dependent female. The majority of them would bat their eyes and do what ever they could to win you over or give you a sob story.

When I'd give them a ticket their demeanor would change real fast. I always got a kick out of that. When she got there at the end of the jazzercise session, most of the women were on their way out, leaving De Piero sitting in Emmanuel church hall with just five women and one man who had agreed to help her find an answer to her query: "Why do you hate me? They were the first of six groups of people De Piero met on a national quest to find out why people seem to dislike politicians so much.

As she talked with mothers, one-time miners, golfers and warehouse workers, the former GMTV journalist turned Labour MP was offered many reasons: the expenses scandal was mentioned again and again; more recently the chief whip's insult to a police officer at the gate to Downing Street. The weekly shout-a-thon that is prime minister's questions was on the list, as was public grandstanding by MPs on benefits cheats, "shirkers", and moral responsibility.

What this all boiled down to, though, was a simple but strong message: MPs were not "like us" and they did not understand voters' concerns. The consensus was that politicians came from different backgrounds, had more income and job security than was usual, and appeared — almost always on television — to spend their time bickering and avoiding difficult questions, rather than trying to find solutions to everyday problems.

Challenged as to why these critics did not stand for election themselves, to represent their own interests, one person in the aerobics class was blunt: "Because I hate the way you do politics," said Anne, a semi-retired florist.

De Piero's "why do you hate me" quest began in , the summer after her election. She was at a small family music festival with James Robinson a former Guardian journalist and now her husband.

A fan from her TV days asked for a photograph, posing with his arm around her. At the end, she mentioned that she was now an MP. James and I said 'oh my gosh, it's like I'm an axe murderer now'. Despite being a new MP, or perhaps because she had so recently not been a politician, De Piero was not surprised.

The "working class, free-school-meal girl from Bradford" might have got a glamorous job in television but her background and journalism had given her a better insight than many MPs into just how much impact the expenses scandal she covered had had on audiences — its "cut-through", in the industry jargon. Antisocial behaviour might do it, the budget does it, but nothing got it like expenses," said De Piero.

After the festival incident, the MP for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire became more alert for signs of public discontent, and took a growing interest in polls that shed light on the topic.

What needs to be done urgently at this hour is to beat the virus decisively and straighten up the economy, which is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. There are many other unresolved issues such as labour disputes, and the prospect of widespread industrial action in case of the government going ahead with the New Fortress energy deal, etc. There are signs of another explosive spread of Covid, but the government does not seem to care. If the country happens to be locked down again, not even the deities who are believed to have made this country their abode will be able to save us.

The same is true of Constitutions and amendments thereto. It is the collective vision of those personalities, who passionately loved their land, and other patriotic Founding Fathers, that is reflected in the US Constitution, and has made the American democracy robust so much so that it has survived the likes of President Donald Trump. Prime Minister Rajapaksa, on Thursday, spoke of the flaws in the present Constitution and its amendments.

It is he who introduced the 18th Amendment, one of the worst pieces of legislation the country has ever seen. His brother, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, overtook him by having the 20th Amendment passed. If the 20th Amendment is abolished with the 19th Amendment being reintroduced with some changes thereto to cleanse it of yahapalana politics, the existing Constitution can work until the time is opportune for making a new Constitution.

We are not that lucky. That is why we have Presidents acting like monarchs. One can only hope that the Constitution which is said to be on the anvil will not be an exercise to compass the political ends of those in power, especially the ruling family, which has a deep batting lineup, as it were.

Politics usually has on the reputations of eminent scholars the same effect as a smidgen of cow dung on a pot of milk. Some learned men and women, in their wisdom, choose to go out of their way to work under semi-literate politicians and demean themselves, thereby, making students wonder why they should study hard when they can drop out of school, take to politics and boss the learned people around. Many a true word is said to be spoken in jest.

But how fair is it to single out Prof. Laskshman for criticism? In this country, no state official is free to carry out his or her duties and functions according to his or her conscience. Dirty politics has eaten into the vitals of the state service and reduced public officials to mere puppets. But Prof. Lakshman should have known better than to undertake to head the Central Bank under the current government leaders who have a history of landing public officials in trouble.

The educated politicians are no better. The blame for Treasury bond scams has been laid at the feet of Arjuna Mahendran, who was the CB Governor at the time. True, he was responsible for the mega racket, but he did not act on his own initiative. His political masters obviously masterminded the fraud, and had him carry it out, but neither the COPE Committee on Public Enterprises nor the Presidential Commission of Inquiry that probed the bond scams cared to trace the mastermind.

Rogues in the yahapalana government did not go the whole hog to have their immediate predecessors thrown behind bars for various rackets, and the latter have returned the favour; no serious effort has been made to bring Mahendran here to stand trial so that his erstwhile political bosses will be safe. The need for excessive money printing has arisen, and the country is in an economic mess today because the SLPP effected huge tax cuts immediately after the regime change, and threw money around during the early stages of the pandemic to win the general election that came a few months later.

The economy suffered a double whammy; government revenue decreased due to a sharp drop in tax revenue, and money had to be printed to distribute cash by way of relief. The country would not have come to this pass if the government had not carried out its general election campaign at the expense of the economy. There is no gainsaying that the pandemic has taken a heavy toll on the economy, and all countries are experiencing economic difficulties, but the situation would not have been this bad here if the government had acted wisely.

Mega rackets such as the sugar tax racket have also cost the country dear. A beggar woman has been arrested for going on a shopping spree by using a credit card that a kind-hearted lady happened to drop while giving her some money.

It has been revealed that the culprit has amassed a considerable amount of wealth by begging, and owns two houses. Among the goods she has fraudulently purchased are a washing machine, a stock of liquor for her husband and a lot of expensive food items.

One can only hope the bogus beggar will get her just deserts and be made to regret having done what she did. One sees no difference between the so-called leaders and the beggar woman who enriched herself by abusing the munificence of the public and through fraudulent means.

They and their families have not only lived off the generous people but also stolen state funds, and thrived on borrowings, leaving debt repayment to the public. But none of them are ever made to pay for their frauds unlike the aforesaid beggar woman; cases filed against them after they lose power are invariably discarded when they make a comeback. The despicable process of the state prosecutor unflinchingly withdrawing cases against those in power has made a mockery of the judicial process.

SJB MP Sarath Fonseka has recently made a damning revelation; someone in the yahapalana government received a backhander to the tune of USD 20 million, when a controversial airbus deal was cancelled and compensation amounting to USD million paid to the company concerned. The yahapalana politicians formed a government, promising to have the leaders of the previous dispensation thrown behind for bribery and corruption, among other things.

Fonseka, a minister in the previous government, is there to give evidence, and the government can order an investigation maybe in retaliation for the scathing attacks it has come under from the Opposition over the Pandora Papers disclosures.

But you can bet your bottom dollar that the ruling politicians will not care to do so, for they are busy making up for lost time, and devising ways and means of having cases against them terminated.