On Foxes, Politicians, and the Financial Crisis

For the last two days I have been watching along with the rest of America the drama between Wall Street and Washington. Yesterday the financial market had the largest drop in U.S. history. Today the market enjoyed its largest gain. The vote in Washington was charged with partisanship. We are within 34 days of the election and everything is being used as a weapon against the opposition. The worse the news the stronger the weapon. Sometimes it seems like politicians like bad news more than good news. The housing crisis and the collapse of lending institutions are being wielded like battle axes. Everyone is looking to pin the blame on the other party. As I have listened I have found the whole thing fascinating. The foxes got into the hen house and everyone wants to blame someone for not watching. Whose job was it to watch the foxes, to protect the hens? Here is my question. Who exactly are the foxes and who are the hens? Are the executives of the lending institutions really just more evil, more greedy than all the rest of us? Are the politicians the ones who have no fox characteristics so they qualify to be the ones outraged by the foxes? The Bible seems to say we all have plenty of fox in us. The whole thing may have started with the best of motives. Everyone should be able to live in their own house and have a mortgage. But then the smell of hens pulled out the fox in just about everyone in the process including every politician. Now everyone is trying to act like a hen. I sit and watch TV and find myself looking down my long fox nose at all the greed in Wall Street until I get my latest statement and the whole neighborhood may hear me howl. I think we need to protect the hens but don't think for a minute that anyone is only a hen. We all have enough fox in us to do damage. It is why God sent a Savior. And he is the only one who was ever really safe to be in the hen house in the first place.