Corruption stinks!

I am rarely in a bad mood, and almost never get sick. My wife got sick a week or two ago and then infected me and yesterday I spent most of the day parked on the sofa trying to recover. Like a fool I watched the news all day and it really put me in a bummer of a mood.

Mostly I watched the Haiti crisis on network after network. It became obvious that the general consensus from all of the networks is that that the extreme poverty of this beleaguered country stemmed from the corruption that is an integral part of that society. Even prior to the earthquake billions of dollars were poured into this tiny country and yet little if any improvement was seen because corrupt politicians, strongmen, and thugs took it for themselves.

As I watched, I wondered if the United States might end up like that one day. Consider that President Obama promised 8 times while campaigning that the negotiations for the Health Care bill would be open to the public and indeed would be aired on C-Span. He of course broke that promise and all negotiations are now being conducted in secret.

Why? Because they do not want the public to see the corrupt backroom deals that are being made to all of the special interest groups in order to get every last vote.

It began with one of the Democratic Party’s biggest supporters and contributor’s, the trial lawyers. Their support demanded that the many malpractice lawsuits that drive up the cost of health care remain intact and virtually unlimited and unregulated.

“Hey, no problem.”

Next the pharmaceutical companies were promised that Canada’s less inexpensive drugs would not be opened to the American public.

“Let’s keep those Canucks out of the good old USA.”

And next Louisiana’s senator put her vote on the block for $300 million.

“Sure, let us write you a check.”

A vote was needed from the senator from Nebraska. He demanded that all of the other states pay extra taxes in order to pick up his state’s portion of Medicaid.

“Sounds good to me, consider it done!”

The unions didn’t want their Cadillac health care plans (that far exceed the health care plans of the “common” folks), to be taxed.

“You guys don’t worry; we will just pay your portion by taxing someone or some group that does not support us and play ball.”

Arghhh. It is enough to drive us batty. Our kids suffer because the teacher’s union does not want their members fired for poor performance. The Democrats want to pressure banks to loan money to poor people who cannot repay it and then malign them for being idiots when they cannot repay those very loans.

It’s not limited to Democrats either; the Republicans allowed their supporters, (the banks), to drive up costs for credit card fees. Sweetheart deals were made to keep military bases in cities where they are not strategically needed or build equipment that does not work in order to appease some senator or congressman and on and on.

Yesterday I was mulling through all of this and wondering about my poor grandkids when I watched a video on the Internet called a palindrome. (A palindrome reads the same backwards as forward. This video reads the exact opposite backwards as forward. Not only does it read the opposite, the meaning is the exact opposite.) This is only a 1 minute, 44 second video and it is brilliant. Make sure you read as well as listen and watch it all of the way through, (forward and backward). I am including the link to it because it made me think that in spite of all of our corrupt politicians and problems that hope is available to those who can look at things in a positive manner. The author of hope is Jesus and He miraculously changed my life when I turned to Him and if enough people will turn to Him instead of our government, He will change this country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA



(2 Peter 1:2-4)

“Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”