Big Government Breeds Big Corruption

[The Big Dog]

Speaker Gingrich weighs in on the Blagojevich scandal and puts the responsibility squarely where it lies.

Big Government Breeds Big Corruption

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by Newt Gingrich
Human Events.com
12/16/2008

Question: What do Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D), convicted Senator Ted Stevens (R), failing public school administrators, and the 80 percent of retiring California Highway Patrol chiefs who apply for disability have in common?

Answer: None of them is honest, and all of them are part of America’s already vast and rapidly expanding government.

The idea that big government is inherently corrupting is as old as America itself. It was part of the Founders’ case for casting off the chains of the British monarchy.

More recently, the principle that big government breeds big corruption was perhaps expressed best by humorist P.J. O’Rourke, who said:

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”[/quote]

[jgaffney]

The Hill has this:

For at least five of the last six years, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and several other members of the Congressional Black Caucus have spent a few days each fall at a different luxurious Caribbean island resort.

The trip’s official mission is to facilitate business and diplomatic relationships between the region and the United States.

This year’s trip took place Nov. 6 to 9, the weekend after the election, on the sun-swept 10-acre Sonesta Maho Beach Resort in St. Martin. The ethics committee approved the Caribbean trip, as it has done for several years, but new information uncovered about its corporate funding raises questions about whether the trip violates a two-year-old ethics rule passed after Democrats regained the House.

It's obviously a racist probe.