Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 16, 2009

Sir Thomas More observed that "Men desire authority for its own sake that they may ? command and control other men, and live un-commanded and uncontrolled themselves."

Although some people genuinely desire to serve others, corrupt self-interest and outright criminal ambition are far more common motivations for seeking public positions.

The administration of the so-called Wall Street bailout abounds with such thinly disguised corruption. Take, for example, the official heading the Troubled Assets Relief Program, Neel Kashkari.

Like the man who appointed him, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Kashkari is a former employee of Goldman Sachs, which was deeply involved in the securitization of toxic loans. The resulting bonds were so bad that one department at Goldman Sachs was shorting them even as another was selling them.

Not surprisingly, Goldman Sachs has profited handsomely from the taxpayer subsidies directed its way by its former employees in public office.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.