Who sows the wind
will reap what?

It is not only inflation that strongly affects people with a low income or who earn very low wages. As they have no savings, and often, they do not even have a banking account, rising prices ends up with their meager incomes, and this happens to everybody, however, the rich are able to protect themselves against the high cost of food, medicine, water bill, energy, petrol and fuels in general.

Petrol and fuel?

Yes. Why not?

People with a low income do not own cars. They use the public transport, but the rate charged by transport companies also increases in the face of rising costs, and the cost of fuel weights in their pockets.

However, we do not want to talk about inflation, but about something else that harms people very much. It can be found everywhere: corruption!

When the resources of a municipality or a public body are diverted, the biggest losers are the very poor people.

Let us imagine that a certain project costs 400,000 Reais (Brazilian currency) and, because of unscrupulous people, the cost reaches the 900 thousand.

This means that the difference, i.e., 500,000 Reais could be applied in education, health or sanitation.

Those, who indulge themselves with this extra money, are harming precisely the ones that can only go to a public school or use the public health system.

The poor quality of school meals, lack of teaching materials, of doctors and drugs in health centers are some of the consequences of this illness, which is found in all governmental levels, and it does not even spare the companies that control the interest of the government.

What we are saying is modest if compared to the millions, or let us say billions, that have been stolen, strongly affecting the poor population that has no conditions to enroll their children in private schools, even less pay a health plan.

Why do people, who are paid high salaries or have a live that everybody envies, steal public money?

The answer is given by a simple word: greed. Greed is considered by the Church as one of the "seven deadly sins".

We come into this world to fulfill a specific task, and our purpose is to grow spiritually and help our community, but we forget everything and start accumulating assets.

As we live in a country where most of the people are catholic, we would like to remember a phrase Jesus said regarding perfection: "... what is the use of a man to gain the whole world and lose his own sole?" (Mark 8:36).

One of these days these people will return to where they came from - their spiritual home - and, of course, will face the consequences of their misdeeds and all suffering they inflicted, as Jesus also said in these words: "And the kingdom of the children will be cast into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth"(Matthew 8:12).

"Who sows the wind, reaps what?"

You know the answer.

It seems, however, that corrupts ignore it.