Protected

I was answering questions in a group, today, and they asked what we wanted to be when we were young.  People put teacher, nurse, various superhero names, and I put cop.  Oddly, none of the accountants in our group put accountant, which is hilarious.  But, yeah... I watched all the Police Academy movies, wore a Miami Vice half sleeve shirt like Don Johnson, watched Magnum PI, Equalizer, Chips, Lethal Weapon, and many many other cop movies and shows.  Even as I have empathy, I've always had a need to balance it with justice for those wrong.  It would also inspire me to join the military and consider being a lawyer.

Today, I was thinking of another threat from which people need protection... one that I think has slipped from modern minds, because the last big example of it is decades old.  Do you remember the Enron scandal?  Enron was a Texas company that hid its debt from investors.  When it collapsed, a HUGE number of retirement funds of older people and more lost huge sums of their money.  Similarly, a man named Bernie Madoff schemed thousands of people out of money in a ponzi scheme and defrauded accounting.

The trend of late is to attack the government as bad and desire less of it.  However, these and others in my mind show it might, actually, need to be expanded.  I've put some government links to things you already use on the side panel of my blog, but the defense of people from those that would cheat to get rich at the expense of others is also a very worthy cause.  And, I'm very glad to support it.