Venality: a
vice associated with being bribeable or of selling one's services or power, especially when one should act
justly instead. In its most recognizable form,
dishonesty, venality causes people to lie and steal for their personal advantage, and is related to
bribery and
nepotism, among other vices.
And some would give more power to the Government
"So, when you connect the dots, properly understood, what happened this
week is the first battle in a civil war; a civil war in which, for now,
only one side is choosing violence. It is a battle in which members of
Congress, with the collusion of the American president, sent violent,
organised suppression against the people they are supposed to represent.
Occupy has touched the third rail: personal congressional profits
streams. Even though they are, as yet, unaware of what the implications
of their movement are, those threatened by the stirrings of their dreams
of reform are not."
If you are worried about big business, limit government and you reduce the power that corporations could buy.
