Hypocrisy is the proof of retrenched principles.

When those in leadership act according to policy, not politics, and according to a greater good, not the common good, we will make some progress. The kind of progress that lead to a 5,000-year leap, as author Cleon Skousen explained. Unfortunately we have too many leaders who are regressing on principles for votes and money. What we are left with, when the back-tracking and "let me clarify-ings" are spoken, are out-of-touch politicians who are ripe with poor judgement and weak characters making the decisions for the rest of us.

Just this week in the news we find several examples:

Jon Corzine, CEO of MF Global, a commodities brokerage firm and a primary dealer of U.S Treasury securities, filed for the eighth largest U.S. bankruptcy on October 30, 2011. This week Corzine, the former Democratic U.S. Senator and Governor of New Jersey, has been called to provide testimony in front of a House Committee regarding the $1.2 billion in MF Global client money that has gone missing. Corzine claims he doesn’t know what happened to the money, and also defended his decision to bet billions of dollars of MF Global money on risky debt of European countries.

As the Washington Post reports, "[t]he firm was required to keep clients’ money separated from its own. But more than $1.2 billion might be missing, the trustee overseeing the firm’s liquidation said last month."

Corzine claims he never intended to break any rules, he was not in position to know what happened regarding the movement of specific funds, and that he never intended to authorize the transfer of client funds-- but if he did, it was a "misunderstanding."

Prior to his stint as CEO of MF Global, Corzine was CEO of Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs, interestingly enough, was the second-largest donor for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign (approximately $1 million).Corzine also "has been a major fundraiser for President Barack Obama, having donated the maximum of $5,000 that an individual can give for a presidential campaign, according to campaign finance records. He also held a lavish $35,800-a-head fundraising dinner for Obama at his home in April and raised or 'bundled' donations of at least $500,000 so far for Obama's 2012 re-election effort."

Let's not wait for the media to report the connection between those "fat cats" on Wall Street and their liberal elite. Obama's Wall Street & Co team, including big hitters JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Sidley Austin LLP (one of the largest law firms in the U.S., based in Chicago), UBS AG, General Electric, Google, Microsoft and Morgan Stanley, maintain cozy solidarity with the Obama Administration as long as the financial benefits remain appealing.

Attorney General Eric Holder has also spent some quality time with a House Congressional Committee this week. He returned to account for his role in the failed Operation Fast and Furious, in which federal agents delivered nearly 2,000 weapons to Mexican Drug cartels without tracking their use. The weapons have been showing up at U.S. crime scenes, including the murder of a border patrol agent.

Emails from the Obama Administration have been released to the committee, explaining one desired outcome of the operation was to press states for stricter gun control laws.

A turning point in the hearing was Holder's Clintonesque pontifications about truth. Wisconsin Senator Jim Sensenbrenner asked Holder, “Tell me what the difference is between lying and misleading Congress in this context?” Holder responded, "If you want to have this legal conversation, it all has to do with your state of mind, and whether or not you had the requisite intent to come up with something that can be considered perjury or a lie."

Good to know, Holder, since you are the highest-ranking official of our Justice Department, that lying is simply a state of mind.

And then we have the Occupy Wall Street protesters, who have proven the meatiest fodder for conservative-minded pundits since Clinton's definition of "is."

OWS protesters in Zuccotti Park carried a lengthy list of grievances, including the rich who....well, are rich. The rich must pay their fair share, they cried out, while beating their drums and signing the lyrics of "Have You Been To Jail For Justice?"

In an effort to manage the proposals of the unruly group, a small cartel of OWS "leaders" met daily in the lobby of-- wait for it-- Deutsche Bank. Samantha Bee from the Daily Show interviewed the "council" to see how the process works.

Samantha asks once male leader, "So big decision for Occupy Wall Street are being made in the atrium of the Deutsche Bank building?" He replies with a simple yes, to which Samantha then asks, "Is my nose bleeding? Because I feel like an aneurysm just exploded in my head."

Generations of Americans are being taught that morals are relative-- what is right for you may not be right for your neighbor. Everything you want should be free, including education, health care and homes. Work ethic is replaced by childish whining and complaining about fairness and economic justice. Hypocrisy reigns, because after all, you only need to believe what is personally expedient for the moment.

But this ideology will never win out. There will always be some educators who push this on their students and liberals who are elected by the very same minority that will be hurt from their policies... while the rest of us are busy.

We work hard at our jobs, we save for our future and live within our means. We raise our kids to know right from wrong, and we help our neighbors when they need it the most. We live by a set of principles and we love our country. We don't have the loudest voice right now, but while we are refining our characters, the other side loses ground on theirs. We'll know what to do when it needs to be done.