Comment Democracy? Hardly... (Score 1) 309
What we have is a representative republic, not a democracy. The difference lays in the fact that we vote people into office to handle affairs of state for us (in the case of the Presidency, it's a couple of steps removed -- we vote for the people who actually vote the President into office and who will hopefully vote the way we told them to) instead of handling affairs of state directly.
And beyond election-time rhetoric, I sincerely doubt that any of our representatives think of the money they spend as belonging to the taxpayers -- if it _did_ belong to us, we'd get a direct choice in how it was spent.
--JackCat
