Simmering Governmental Corruptions Overflow

Since Barack Obama was elected president of the United States of America, corruptions that have simmered for decades are now suddenly spilling over before our eyes. 

Rod Blagojevich (seen-r), Bernard Madoff, and Charles B. Rangel, are just a few individuals that have one thing in common; all abused the power of their office as a way of making money on the side.

According to court documents, the FBI stated that Blagojevich expressed frustration at being "stuck" as governor. "I want to make money," stated the Illinois Governor in a reported conversation. 

Blagojevich's salary is 177,412 dollars, and he wants to make more money? 

He's been governor now over 5 years, what else could he have illegally done in all that time? Blagojevich actually lives better than most people in America, and better than most people in other countries. He should count his blessings and stop allowing greed to guide him. 

Bernard Madoff (seen-r), a 70 year old trader and hedge fund manager was recently arrested for allegedly defrauding investors of 50 billion in a ponzi scheme.  

In other words, Madoff paid off investors with funds that weren't available. This scheme makes the hedge fund one of the biggest frauds in history, well,  almost as big as the Enron scandal. But unlike Enron executives who were all acquitted after loosing hundreds of millions of their clients' money, the executives were able to keep the millions they stole, while Bernard Madoff faces 20 years in prison and a fine set at 5 million. 

Charles B. Rangel (seen-r) D-N.Y., is being investigated by the House ethics panel for several matters, with one being his failure to disclose income received from property he owns in the Dominican Republic. 

The New York Times reported that Rangel preserved a tax benefit for an oil drilling company, and on the same day he asked the head of that company to donate money to the Charles B. Rangel public service school at the City College of New York. Investigation reports are set to be completed by the time Congress goes out of session January 3, 2009.

And in the past two days President Bush, has been accused of water boarding by military officials. The technique was characterized in 2005 by former CIA director Porter J. Goss, as a "professional interrogation technique." 

Water boarding (seen-r) is a form of torture used against detainees so that no physical marks are apparent on the body, but causes a person to gag uncontrollably. 

The U.S. retired chief intelligence analyst Thomas Fingar, made a bold move to speak against President Bush for placing all falsehoods on him. In Fingars' words, "Part of the blame goes to time pressure. The Bush administration ordered the intelligence report to be produced in less than two weeks, when similar intelligence estimates can take months or years."   

Greed is a horrible thing but it's good to weed out the bad seeds now, than have to deal with them later.

2008 LA