The Privileged Elite

In order to maintain a free society leaders must be of excellent moral fiber. They must be people who want to serve their community. What we have now are representatives who want to serve themselves. Remember when congressman Jefferson was found to have over $90,000 hidden in his freezer, it was bribe money, his excuse was he was keeping it fresh( not really).
Now we have Charlie Rangel being charged with improper financial disclosures, not paying taxes on $600,000 worth of income( Oh come on, whats a little oversight like $600,000) and using his position as congressman to solicit money for his private endeavors( Oh come on, whats a little conflict of interest, he's a congressman for crying out loud). The congressman used his office time and official congress letterheads ,stamps and envelopes to solicit money for his community center, named after him of course. So how would an elitist react to being charged for these things: "Oh come on, these things are not true".
The man was only going to be reprimanded? If any other citizen had attempted this they would be looking at jail time and a substantial fine, not a reprimand. Shame on Rangel, shame on congress. Oh but it doesn't stop there.....
Now we also have Maxine Waters, another life long pig at the trough of public money. Of course the money is not enough and this is not about serving the community, it is about serving Maxine Waters. Well Mrs Waters found that in late 2008 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were being helped by the government because they had taken a beating in the real estate meltdown. Mrs. Waters called Hank Paulson, who was Treasury Secretary at the time, and set up a meeting with some of the minority bank owners in her district who were concerned about the real estate situation and how this would impact them. Paulson sent Treaury people to meet with Mrs. Waters and her concerned bank representatives. It turned out only one bank was reperesented, the bank that her husband had been on the Board of up until a few months before this. More damning, though, was that her husband had investments in this bank of up to $1,000,000. Before the meeting she ran all of this by Bernie Frank, also a congressman, who told her to leave it alone, she didn't and now she has been indicted.
How nice it must be, to control the purse strings of America. Hey, if things go wrong I can always game the system, you see I am privileged, I am a congressman, not just some ordinary citizen. Rangel has been in office for 40 years, Waters has been in for 20 years. You see the pattern. I am comfortable in my position, nobody can take it away from me, I can do whatever I want and no one may question me.
I believe there are many more of these stories, they just have not seen the light of day. These people just happen to have been caught. What does that say about our nation. To me it says we are in peril, if a person loves money , power and wealth this much, what would they give for it, our nation, our freedom. These people are seditious, the people who want to "reprimand " people of this low moral code should be tried themselves. Why not replace these people with people who really care about the USA and will do the peoples work? Send the pigs feeding from the trough back to their respective pens.