Scale of 1-10 how well do you think your interests are represented by and in gov

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In government, because of the enormous number of people involved, representatives, proxies of their districts wants and needs, and advocates of the peoples voice, must be appointed. These representatives are supposed to carry our concerns to Washington and represent the need, thoughts, and desires of the people that they are appointed to represent. However I see a lot of corruption, a lot of lifetime politicians with agendas, and some lawmaking which is well just, contraty to the hearts and minds of the constituents who entrust these people with the mechanics of public welfare and who make the laws under which we all must live. If our interests were truly represented in government do you think that America would have voted to bail out the banks or the auto industry? Would taxes be as high as they are the world over if our interests and our concerns for our families and communities were properly represented in government? Do you think that if the American people were permitted to vote on it, that our military would be in Iraq and Afghanistan? Would we have voted to attack them in the first place in our misguided "War on terrorism"? You can't declare war on a militant or multi- national group without declaring war on their countries. So as soon as we started amassing troops to go over there and tamper with their governments and with their people in the hopes of bending them to our will, if there had been a general vote taken on pouring the trillions of dollars down the drain that this war has cost, would the American people have said, "yes, go halfway around the world and attack the terrorists, the military, the governments, and finally the civilians who are caught up in the process. And while you are at it, completely strip our country of it's finances and financial independance"? So on a scale of 1-10 how represented in government do you personally feel? Do you agree with the decisions that are being made for you locally, at the state level, or the federal level. Finally do you think that the government is making good use of your tax dollars that you support?