The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #57637   Message #907394
Posted By: Ebbie
11-Mar-03 - 11:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Arafat's $300 million
Subject: RE: BS: Arafat's $300 million
I don't see why anyone would be surprised by anyone's presence on the list. Power tends to accumulate wealth. Access to wealth tends to make you wealthy.

I remember reading years ago about Jim Bakker and Tammy Fay during that scandal of greed and corruption, that when the staff were counting the money that came in from the faithful in its millions, Bakker would on occasion grab up a fistful of the cash and hand it to someone. When no one has the authority to make you accountable, you tend not to account for things.

When you are working with food in a kitchen and are in charge of doling it out to starving but anonymous people, it would very probably be difficult not to give your own children more food than to the crowds outside the door.

Those who do not cave in to that mindset are the remarkable people in our midst. He who is without sin may cast the first stone.