Who do people consider to be less ethical or honest than either telemarketers or used car salesman? If you said Washington politicians, you’d be right on the button. According to Gallup News Services, members of Congress are right at the bottom of perceived ethical behavior and honesty.
Every year Gallup issues the results of a public opinion survey concerning people’s views about the degree of honesty and ethical behavior in a variety of professions and occupations in the United States. Its last such survey was released in December 2018.
According to Gallup’s questioning of adults over 18 years of age, living in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, 58 percent of respondents held low or very low opinions of Congressmen’s ethics and honesty. Only 8 percent held high or very high positive views concerning the honesty and ethics of those holding a Congressional office.
Indeed, the only occupations with negative ratings near that of Congressmen were telemarketers, with 56 percent of those in the survey saying they held low or very low opinions of those calling and annoying them over the phone, and car salesmen who were viewed low or very low by 44 percent of those responding to the questions; like the view of Congressmen, only 8 percent of those surveyed considered car salesmen as highly or very highly honest and ethical. .
Journalists were ranked low or very low in honesty and ethics by 34 percent of those in the survey. Stockbrokers were viewed negatively by 32 percent, labor union leaders were viewed as low or very low by 31 percent, while only 28 percent felt that way about the ethics and honesty of lawyers.
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