The most recent public evidence of corruption and greed in our political system comes with the exposure of Blagojevich.
The truth is that the political system is no different than our corporate system. It's run for profit, for power, for position. Left unregulated, you end up with the same bad management, the same corruption, the same greed and incompetence, that we've been seeing in the corporate sector. The money accumulates; shrewd men get rich, and then leave their legacy to their heirs, or their protégé. After an amount of time, wealth breeds incompetence because of sheer excess. If you're born wealthy, you don't need to work as hard to earn it. But you like the money; Oh, you like the money, and with money the possibilities are intoxicating. With money comes power, and so at your disposal is the means to influence to make MORE money,- for yourself. And so what began as entrepreneurial
spirit ends with greed, and bad management. All systems eventually are driven by corruption and and greed if not regulated.
Our political system needs regulated as much as,- no more,- than the corporate system because they ARE our regulators. Transparency is required. Full disclosure to their "employers",- the American PEOPLE,- is critical for true democracy. They are supposed to be our voices, and to be our guides, the guys who create our government, and ultimately, all government is supposed to be to be FOR the PEOPLE. But when government is really being created, written, in general to benefit the legislators and there are few just men and women who understand what their job truly is, when there are few envisioned men and women with the wisdom to guide us, to see their future inextricably linked with ours, to be looking ahead and thoughtfully preserving our
generations, our future, and not just our wealth... we are in a dismal state, as we have been for far too long now.
My hope is that Obama is such a person: one who has a vision of things greater than himself, one who has conviction he can make a difference for tomorrow by doing things well today; that he's a part of the political system, but still idyllic enough to believe that it can and should work like it's supposed to, that he can change it for the better and young enough to perhaps get it done. Give me a choice where to hang my star, and I'll hang it on hope. All we have in the end is hope, and hope dictates an optimism that yes, indeed, it CAN happen.