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Jobs in Washington are for sale for favors rendered. Just read Monica Lewinsky’s job resume. Contributions to people in power and the right connections can ensure professional movement up the ladder more than schooling, brains or integrity. This is the lesson that is being learned by our young people from the capital of our nation.

Jeff MacNelly’s Feb. 1 editorial page cartoon says it all succinctly and correctly. Have we become a nation of liars with no moral backbone? Public and private lives are integrally intertwined. You can’t put on the cloak of integrity for public life and not live integrity in your private life.