Meanwhile, the people who work for government have to account for every penny and adhere to a spaghetti maze of laws designed to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse.
The more egregious those at the top are with using taxpayer money for their own benefit, the tighter the laws become for government's worker bees. The same principle applies to ethics.
That’s an interesting and accurate view. The thieves at the top impose lots of integrity regulations on those at the bottom so they can claim they are ensuring good stewardship of the taxpayer’s money. Its a pretty convincing show for a gullible public, like most of the other political theatrics they produce. Hey, they’re good at this. Its what they do.