Just a few months ago Jon Corzine was on the short list to be President Obama’s Treasury Secretary, but now he’s ignoring a request to testify before a House subcommittee investigating the demise MF Global and setting up a showdown that could have major political implications for the president as his 2012 re-election looms. If you want to know why the president is so lame on the economy, consider who from the private sector he surrounds himself with for advice: Jeffrey Immelt, the chief executive of GE, which creates more jobs overseas lately than here in the US: Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who when he isn’t lecturing people on the need for higher taxes, uses every loophole imaginable to avoid paying his fair share, and Jon Corzine, who until recently was the CEO of MF Global.

Lately, I have been thinking about joining the “dark side”. Lets face it, the criminals who run our government won’t stop until they have it all. And if you’re well connected, you can get away with anything.

The president and Corzine are known to be pretty close, and it goes beyond the president’s visit to Corzine’s swanky midtown Manhattan apartment for a fundraiser or the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Corzine, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs and former New Jersey governor, raised for the president this year. Don’t believe me, listen to vice president Joe Biden who said Corzine helped the administration develop its stimulus program (he wanted it bigger than the originally planned $300 billion; the final package was closer to $1 trillion) while referring to him as “the smartest guy I know in terms of the economy.”

The president and the vice president will eat those words one way or another in the coming weeks and months. In a business where optics is everything, consider the following: Now that Corzine has ignored his request to testify before a House subcommittee on investigations regarding his role in the bankruptcy of MF Global, he will likely be subpoenaed since Republicans control the majority of the committee.

When the lawmakers and enforcers are allowed to do whatever they want, then why should I pay more taxes, obey laws, vote and bow to an unbelievably corrupted government. Where is the incentive? It’s almost like these idiots want an uprising…..hmmm.