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Title: 2013: The Year So Far in Corruption
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URL Source: http://takimag.com/article/2013_the ... on_takimag/print#axzz2MVynJBy5
Published: Mar 3, 2013
Author: by The Editors
Post Date: 2013-03-03 16:43:57 by Ada
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Lord Acton’s famous maxim that “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” is such a nakedly accurate observation of human nature that one might assume no one ever needed to articulate it, much less keep reminding anyone about it.

But a cornerstone of the Grand Leftist Delusion is the notion that when you give human beings the power to legally extort a significant chunk of other human beings’ productive income, this will bring out their best behavior rather than their worst.

And yet, as luck and magic would have it, wherever there is government on Earth, there is corruption. And it’s almost an inviolable law of physics that the bigger the government, the bigger the corruption.

In February, a former Nigerian Foreign Affairs Minister eloquently lamented the widespread corruption in his country and elsewhere:

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#1. To: Ada (#0)

this one's classic -

BELL, CA—A juror has been dismissed in the corruption trial of six City Council members in this tiny low-income LA County municipality. The defendants had allegedly voted themselves pay raises that in some cases increased their salaries tenfold. Former city administrator Robert Rizzo—even his name sounds corrupt—had set himself up for a pension plan that would have rewarded him over a million dollars a year after retirement. There are also allegations of business shakedowns, misappropriated funds for breast-cancer awareness, and shady real-estate deals. The former mayor’s defense attorney said that much of the alleged misdeeds might simply be innocent mistakes due to the fact that his client was not known for being especially intelligent or “scholarly.”

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2013-03-03   16:50:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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