Well first the finger-pointing has to point to the problem.

Then we have to collectively solve the problem for the future.
Case in point the legislative/govt/lobbying revolving door. Malmen was one that got the finger pointing, the Statesman at least made a point of it for a short while with a couple articles and now the Legislature is doing something about it.

Problem is, the media is shy to shine the light on these problems to begin with, and when done the public generally has other things to worry about other than if the local council is ripping them off. Or they are too stupid to be concerned about it.

Yzaguirre is a great example- he was a business crook yet he was elected to county office. Do his supporters expect him to do 'the right thing' when business comes before the Commissioners when he couldn't do it before?

Bottom line is most of the people are not paying attention to our government.
For those actually paying attention, the media is bias and therefore a large part of the people actually paying attention don't trust the media.
Want evidence? look at the blog to your left called "Your Local Government".

Since it increases about a million dollars every ten seconds you gotta feel good about that. Politicians use campaign finance to pay professional writers to dress it up & it's all good, right? Add in the $2 trillion for the infrastructure because our representatives took campaign contributions & handed out tax cuts & what do we have? Developers making bank? Did they contribute? Maybe it was just a kickback nobody knows about in the good old boy family.

Funny how our representatives can ask the big three if they flew their corporate jets when they never asked the oil, AIG, mortgage, & who did I miss, if they flew their corporate jets, no doubt a tax write off. Bush flies the friendly skies united, right? These politicians who take all this money through campaign finance don't turn it down when they hand out our tax $ in cuts & incentives, do they? They never ride the corporate jet to campaign?

It's ok when you read about it happening in Idaho where we're $240 million short for roads & the Idaho Tax commission lets big corporation off the hook for million because they're heavy into tax knowledge. How did Otter's flunkyy word it? "You can't bully them."

The big three must have selling what we wanted, can't swing a dead cat without hitting a SUV or big truck. What does Dubya drive, a Toyota or Datsun?

opensecrets.org, followthemoney.org show who contributes, who receives, & we all know who gets the tax cuts & incentives like the corporate jets. If we demanded full finacial dislclosure by our representatives, like Paul Harvey says, we'd know the rest of the story.

ewg.org shows which corporate farmers get all the money, your tax $ in subsidies. You might be surprised how much some of these farmers are making. When I lived in Nebraska that web site hit the paper & you should have heard the corporate farmers squeal like a pig. I though Deliverance was making a sequel. Funny how they can't stand to have the rest of the world see the millions in tax $ they get yet accept it so graciously. They drive all the best cars & trucks & have all the big equipment. They buy up all the family farmers who go out of business with tax $ from subsidies. Nice gig if you can get it.

Look at the paper with all the news on DUIs, our elected officials never took any money from alcohol companies did they? They can't understand why alcoholics can't kick the habit yet they pay state employees to sell it, provide benefits, & love the tax revenue? Kicked tobacco companies for money & we can't touch the $82 million like some states do. How is alcoshol any different than smokes? Thousands of people die every year from alcohol related auto accidents, everybody is contributing to our politicians who pushed the mob aside so as to make the money, even MADD contribute to these clowns we call representatives.