When you got that ad on Facebook for a miracle grocery bag that could hang in your cart?

You know, it looked great, and you had to have it right!

When you used it for the first time, and it ripped apart when you dropped a package of raspberries in it, did you think to yourself I was demographically targeted by a business participant in global corruption?

Just the other day, when you put your check in your financial institution and had a few words about why the banking fees seem to jump around so much?

Did you ask yourself if the banks we're honest with you that their costs were escalating?

Then that night on TV you saw that the same bank was laundering money for Russian Oligarchs and the US Justice Department hit your bank with a 7.2 billion fine.

Did you think to yourself I'm participating in global corruption?

You look at your news feed, and it's filled with stories about your president, his friends, and family, all denying that they don't even know where Russia is let alone would they ever use Russian dressing on their mixed green salad.

They would never talk, chat, poke, listen, speak, write, or have the occasion to know a Russian.

Yet all these people and others, including you and I, make investments in mutual funds, in campaign donations, in real-estate, in building projects, in business start-ups whose locations span the globe.

I'm asking…?

Are you consciously aware of, or are you in denial that you may be contributing to corruption worldwide?

Does ignorance of your participation isolate you from prosecution?

From guilt?

Personal corruption used to be a locally raised product.

Your city councilman, your mayor, your chief of police, was looking the other way as local businessman conducted their business that did not fit within either our agreed Legal system or moral parameters.

They got money put into their pockets, they got their driveway repaved, they got free donuts or a new car.

Then the 80s came along, and there was an upsurge in business graduates all looking to make it big on Wall Street and K Street.

Pie charts, flow charts, charts about charts, who buys what, when, and where.

Bottom line how can businesses squeeze more profit out without actually doing more work?

There were resources of cash out in the world that was not being gathered by the right people.

Utilization.

How to attract people's savings into the markets so we can gamble the future with their money, not ours?

Consequently, the rise of the middle class investing in mutual funds was the starter pistol going off with a bang for the official race that is the globalization of corruption.

With your investment in your future, you were told you are securing the lifestyle you deserved.

Well...

There were others out there that wanted more too.

The wolves, the bandits, the oligarchs, your average billionaire.

The scheme?

The expansion of corporations, of LLC's, of mutual funds, of political fundraising groups, all of which could be formed and created by people who did not live in your country.

The Supreme Court passes Citizens United saying it's okay for dark money to speak for corporations as well as it turns out anyone else both foreign and domestic in our politics.

This includes investments in business, false fronts, the credit card industry, online gambling.

The false front, the sting, was made legal in the cooperation of both political parties in the United States.

The skeezy became tolerable.

The public is too ignorant to care.

Profitable.

Corruption became a one-stop location just like your corner, Seven-Eleven.

As you are picking up your smokes, drop a dirty hundred thousand, from legal and illegal drug sales, arms sales, illegal real-estate sales, and human trafficking into a political action committee fundraiser.

The political action committee then puts that money into their clean bank, then they write you a check on the other side thanking you for your participation in lifting their candidate into the public eye.

Everyone wins, the politician, the oligarch, the bank.

You are a patriot.

We will make your country great again.

Translation…

Your newly bought and paid for politician will make sure they will dial back on the equal rights for all brown people, women, and gays.

We will restore the white people of this nation back to their rightful place.

Your modern era political parties at work.

Easy huh!

It used to be, corruption was conducted by the bent nose thug in your community.

Today that thug includes those from other countries who then funnel money into your local, state or federal Chamber of Commerce members.

Who then look the other way as they forego inspections, EPA laws, the last 100 years of justice for the working man.

Each day the members in this global scheme plan a trip to a community bathhouse where they wash each other's crimes and give each other clean cash on the other side.

Easy huh!

Peace

DFrey