The guy who is directly responsible for recession, deficit, and unemployment is enjoying a second career as ex-president and highly paid motivational speaker in Texas. Enron's Jeffrey Skillings may go free -- the Supreme Court seems inclined to let him off the hook. Top management at Goldman Sachs is back its old tricks, not just pulling down the US financial system but inflicting real damage overseas, damage that could come back to haunt us.
But, by gum, the system is coming down hard on the really serious perps.
I don't have a good thing to say about New York Governor David Patterson, but the screaming headline at the New York Times at this hour is a little disproportionate. "Paterson Broke Ethics Law on Receiving Gifts, Panel Charges," and Patterson certainly did. How exactly did he break the law? He picked up some free tickets to the World Series from one of the Yankees' lobbyists. That's New York for you. The same thing would never happen in Washington, right?
Most notable is the California thief -- he stole one bag of shredded cheese from a supermarket and was sentenced to life. And now (California is obviously long on compassion and justice ...hehe) his sentence has been reduced to just short of eight years.
You can tell, can't you, that the justice system in America is working well, no doubt about it. Not.
