The last four years have been something of a high-water mark for corruption in the US. Whether it’s Solyndra, Congress’s insider trading, MF Global, the countless pork spending bills from Congress, or any number of the other hundred or so incidents that have made decent ordinary people outraged, we’ve definitely entered a period in which everyone knows the deal: the power elite live by a different set of laws than the rest of us.
A record 64 percent of American adults surveyed by Gallup in a poll released Monday rated the honesty and ethical standards for members of Congress as "low" or "very low.
The question all of us are thinking is “when will this change?” The answer has much to do with the nature of corruption itself. Corruption is only possible if the benefits to the parties engaged in it far outweigh the potential consequences.
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