by admin | December 18, 2008 | In National Politics | No Comments
Reason.tv’s Michael C. Moynihan talks about the long history of corruption in Chicago politics and the current troubles of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich with Terry Michael, former press spokesman for the Illinois House Democrats and former press secretary for Sen. Paul Simon, and Mike Flynn, Director of Government Affairs at the Reason Foundation.
by admin | December 9, 2008 | In Economy, National Politics | No Comments
If Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested for government corruption, than there are 49 other U.S. governor’s who should be arrested today. David Mildenberg and Brian Louis in this Bloomberg.com article point out it was his threat against U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s favored Bank of America to halt business that did him in.
by admin | October 12, 2008 | In Quotable | No Comments
Thanks to Warren Woodward for emailing this applicable quote.
Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
