Corruption is nation's biggest problem

I've heard that pollsters often call and ask what you think the major problem facing our country is. If asked, I'd say the national debt.

Once interest rates normalize a couple percentage points higher, the interest on the debt would take a huge percentage of our tax dollars, squeezing out other expenditures. This would result in programs getting slashed and taxes exploding on everyone, not just the 1 percent, bringing chaos and a declining economy.

But, after observing the FBI's "investigation" of Hillary Clinton and the special treatment she and her staff members got, I have changed my answer to something much worse. Now I believe the biggest problem facing our country is the rapidly increasing government corruption.

When laws that are very clear are interpreted differently depending on who the defendant is, we have truly lost our soul as a nation. This charade of an investigation essentially took the blindfold off Lady Justice so she could see that the target was a member of the democrat elite and tip the scales.

This government corruption also brings crony capitalization where friends get lucrative government contracts or subsidies, enemies are ruthlessly prosecuted by a corrupt DOJ, pensions are promised but not funded, laws are not enforced or unlawfully changed, interest rates are kept near zero to benefit elites (and bubbles), education policies benefit unions and not students, secret deals with hostile governments are negotiated and then denied, terrible tragedies like Benghazi are lied about and covered up, and on and on.

The situation is indeed dire. But, it may get even worse. We may not have a good choice in this election, but we need to elect the one most likely to address this rampant corruption and not increase it.

Doug Whitlock

Elk Grove Village