Where Greed Resides

I just read an article on WRAL.com - the link is below:

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5166255/

In one of the comments, someone made the point that this is an example of hypocritical governance. While politicians, especially the ones hostile to business, tell us that Wall Street has a monopoly on greed, the truth is that government itself might be the most greedy institution of all.

I think that our government officials are hypocrites. While our liberal Democrat politicians blame excessive Wall Street greed for our economic woes, they fail to look and see the greed in their own midst. Former Governor Mike Easley, for example, is under fire for alleged campaign finance violations, sweetheart land deals and possible wrongdoing concerning his wifes current position at NCSU. This is on top of former Illinois Gov. Blago's apparent "pay to play" Senate seat scandal. Other Democrats include Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd and his possible sweetheart mortage deal with Countrywide. Our own President, Barack Obama, may have even received a land/home deal that was too good to be true from Tony Rezco.

Little known fact about the connection between excessively greedy Wall Street and our moral politicians - the top two recipients of campaign donations from AIG and its employees (the derivatives insurer that received billions in bailout cash) were Chris Dodd and President Obama...

Greed in our capital cities does not stop at the desire for more money. Politicians are greedy for more power. Ironically, Dodd and Obama are using greed as a reason why the government should have more regulatory power over Wall Street. Exploiting greed as a means to fill their greedy appetites for power - that's an interesting tactic, diverting public attention from their own greedy intentions by calling Wall Street excessively greedy. I would argue that political greed is the reason that the American people need to re-assert power over their government.

At the core of my arguments lays a conservative complaint. Our government is too big and too powerful. The people of North Carolina and the United States are not in power anymore. We are handled by politicians who claim the moral high road, who claim to defend the rights of the individuals that make up our great country, but who seem to be walking down the low road and diverting our attention elsewhere.

We conservatives put all of our faith in the individual American and not in the hypocritical politicians attempting to tell us what is best. To them, I say stop trying to divert attention away from your deeds and face the music. If you acted as ethically as you implore others to, you might have the legitimate moral high ground point your finger at the misdeeds of others.