THE NEED FOR GREED

Convicted Ex-New Orleans Mayor to Be Sentenced:

It has always been amusing to me that some people who “have it made in the shade” financially, socially and prestigious life styles never have enough.

Ex-Mayor of the “Big Easy” Ray Nagin is a prime example of just that type of person that was born with larceny I his heart.

Here is a man who had a position in life many people would slit their wrist for. He had money, power and the admiration of the people that elected him to office (the same people he stole from) to bring their city back from the disaster some Wild Lady named Katrina brought down on them.

Nagin was convicted of bribery, money laundering and some other incidentals that could put the one time high roller behind bars for the rest of his life.

His “dis-honorable” the ex-mayor shook down contractors for hundreds of thousands of dollar in cash, vacations and anything else he could squeeze out of them to boost his ego and his already lavish lifestyle. These are funds that could have been used to help the city out of ruins.

Personally I think the biggest crime Ray Ray committed was dishonoring the faith and trust of the citizens of New Orleans put in him as a leader, abusing  it all for his own selfish monetary gains.

In the business world it is a common practice for people to accept lunches, tickets to a ball game and other small gratuities for “favors extended” but when the need for greed envelops a person, more is never is enough.  They all want to be super-stars.

I would venture to say that Nagin has a lot more skeleton in his closet that haven’t surfaced.

In the very near future Nagin is going to trade in those $2,000.00 suits he is used to wearing for an orange jumps suit with numbers on his chest and will be on the inside  looking out.

Ray Nagin is not the only political crook in the country; he was just one of them that got caught.

The old saying  that “prostitution is the oldest occupation” may somewhat be true but I have my own take on it; I say “a politician was her pimp.” So tell me, who came first??

Just as a guess; I would speculate that if Nagin was able to run for mayor in the next election, the same people that he used and abused would vote for him again. Sound familiar?