Mark Steyn ties our Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner to the disgraced head of the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The connection is their arrogance and the herd mentality of the those making the rules.

A lifetime of devoted “public service” in “socialist” France isn’t yet as remunerative as in Mubarak’s Egypt or Saddam’s Iraq, but we’re getting there. As the developed world drowns under the weight of Big Government, the gilded princelings of statism will hunker down in their interior courtyards and guard their privileges ever more zealously. Once in a while, as in that Manhattan hotel suite, a chance encounter between the seigneurs and their subjects will go awry, but more often, as in the Geithner confirmation, it will be understood that the Great Men of the Permanent Governing Class cannot be bound by the rules they impose on the rest of you schmucks…read more

This is legal corruption, but corruption. I am convinced that corruption is the greatest threat to economic growth. How can an economy run well when those who are suppose to keep the game fair and in fact the biggest offenders.

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