I have 2 members of Cobb Co. Commission as wealth management clients and have gone to a ton of dinners, fundraisers, and random events where numerous other county, city, and state gov officials were present. So I've mingled with this crowd and shook virtually all of their hands, from the Governor on down.

It's pretty subjective by city and county and most of all, tenure. Fulton, for instance, is corrupt as hell top to bottom, mostly because it's almost all the same people for over a decade now. An absolute 10. DeKalb and Clayton are just as bad.

Basically, if your county touches Fulton or surrounds Hartsfield-Jackson airport, you're gov is between a 7-10 on the corruption scale. My clients in Cobb are constantly telling me about bullshite they have to deal with.

The GA state assembly, as a whole, is probably an 8-9. There's some good people there, but they're mostly the new folks. Anyone who's been there for more than 6 years has their hands dirty as frick.

And it's the same shite as with our federal government. It's all about spending tax payer dollars and awarding government contracts to crony corporations who will in turn donate back some of that money for certain politician's re-election campaigns.

It's always amazing how when any of these folks leave office, they're suddenly on the board of directors of like 20 corporations and getting huge signing bonuses and salaries for doing virtually nothing. Just so happens they're the same corporations that consistently received government contracts for services during that public servant's tenure in office.

And I use the term, "public servant" VERY loosely.

This post was edited on 6/28/14 at 8:28 am