There seems to be a measure of corruption wherever contracts are involved, regardless of the level of government. Some blame must adhere to the Louisiana Congressmen who voted to spend half a billion (and rising) on a bridge across the Navigation Canal and postpose spending on levees along it, but this neglect of levees along a federally maintained navigable waterway is a result of failed federal responsibility, including the president's.

A bridge to nowhere in Alaska is approved in Congress when the same amount of money could help improve our waterways and highways; many other examples of pork-barreling and waste could be mentioned.

A few corrupt cops and inept local politicians is small potatoes, compared with failure to lead and to fight mis-directed spending at the federal level.