What has happened to our moral and ethical bearings? This week alone, Paul Walczak who cheated his nursing home employees out of millions and used the money to buy luxury items including a yacht got a full pardon (His mother is a big Republican donor). Then there are the Chrisleys, convicted of tax fraud and evasion. So all you have to do is fork over enough cash to the right politician and you get out of jail?
In the meantime, the House voted to “root out Medicaid fraud.” Why doesn’t the so-called Department of Justice go after certain political people who practice medicine without a license and get paid by Medicaid for it? Because they get appointed by HHS to “advisory” positions.
Then there’s the 4-yeaer old girl who will be deported as an “illegal alien,” never mind that she was admitted under humanitarian parole. She’ll probably die without the medical treatment she was admitted to receive. So, she’s the real criminal? Under this miserable excuse for ethical and moral behavior of this government, obviously.
Prayer for the Day
Was there ever a time like this, O God, we ask,
When money to those in power held such sway?
Was there ever a time like this, O Lord, we cry,
When sick and vulnerable children are discarded like refuse?
Give us, O Holy One, a new Amos, a new Micah, a new Hosea,
So our Nation is called back from its abyss of corruption.
In the name of the One who shows us how to be unafraid,
Even Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.
Thoughts for the Day
Todd and Julie Chrisley are charged not only with defrauding a number of banks by fraudulently obtaining millions of dollars in loans, but also with allegedly cheating taxpayers by actively evading paying federal taxes on the money they earned. Celebrities face the same justice that everyone does. These are serious federal charges and they will have their day in court.
U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak, Atlanta (2019)
In total, Walczak caused a tax loss to the IRS of $10,912,334.80. [He pled guilty to two counts of tax fraud and was told to pay a restitution of $4,381,265.76. He will neither serve 18 months nor pay the restitution thanks to the pardon]
DOJ website April 11, 2025
D not rejoice, o Israel! Do not exult as other nations do, fo you have played the whore,
Departing from your God. You have loved a prostitute’s pay on all threshing floors.
Hosea 9: 1