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One problem with opening the upper echelons to lower classes, is that the lower classes are more desperate for money and thus more easily corrupted. You couldn'

One problem with opening the upper echelons to lower classes, is that the lower classes are more desperate for money and thus more easily corrupted. You couldn't offer GW Bush much that he didn't already have as a result of his family's status, but you might have more luck with the son of a poor steel worker like Rod Blagojevich.

bootload 17y ago
"... One problem with opening the upper echelons to lower classes, is that the lower classes are more desperate for money and thus more easily corrupted. ..." Really? Can you explain how are the lower classes more corruptible? Are you really suggesting that your hierarchy in society determines honesty? "... His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy. ..." The problem with using Bush as an example is that Prescott Bush - Grandfather to both President Bush Snr & Jnr - worked with the enemy in WW2 ~ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldw...