LIke President, Like Cabinet

Alphonso R. Jackson, the current Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has been under criticism the last couple of days, jepordizing his leadership as a cabinet member. It is said that Jackson secretly channeled hundreds of thousdands of dollars of government money to personal friends in New Orleans and the Virgin Islands. This is just the icing on top of his cake of corruption.

As if this were not enough, Jackson and other senior HUD officials exchanged emails in which they talked about taking away federal aid from Philadelphia housing chief Carl R. Greene. Senators such as Christopher J. Dodd and Bob Casey, as well as myself, are disgusted with these actions that undermine the public's faith in government officials. It seems that from the beginning of the Bush administration public confidence in our government has been greatly decreasing, mainly due to bad decisions and shady dealings.

These actions only restate the obvious: the fact that we need someone to bring change in the next election. So to Bush and all his cabinet members, being lame ducks, don't try anything fancy in your last couple months in federal office, like redirecting federal money away from helpless Katrina victims to your personal friends. What you did Jackson, is quite shocking, but like I said, like president like cabinet.