Worldcom

The Worldcom boss getting 25 years really sums up the week..at the beginning we had a sruffy irishman getting ugly rich rock stars to promote a concert that would somehow persuade the ridiculously rich countries to give the relative equivalent of a weeks supply of food to everyone in africa...then some fundamentalists bombed london loosely because the richest nations don't like their countries being in charge of the resources that allows the rich countries to stay rich. Finally, today, some fat cat feels that 40 million in the bank is not enough...so swindles semi-poor people in his country and ends up in jail. Can we see an underlying theme to all of this? It's not that we don't want us in the west to drive a prius and have a nice house in the burbs, it is that quite clearly we cannot trust western culture with money. What culture breeds people who think that 40 million for a man and his family is not enough? There it is staring you in the face. The poor world cannot trust the rich world with money...and why should they when the poor in the west cannot trust the rich with their money in their own country...