Stop worshiping money more than life

Perhaps Michelle Obama is really on the mark. We haven't done much lately in this nation to make people proud.
Perfect example: In Saturday's Dallas Morning News, there was a page 4A article about the indictment of Republican congressman Rick Renzi of Arizona (oh yeah, a CLOSE advisor to one John McCain) for extortion and fraud involving a land deal A supplement box listing other bad boys in Washington (Jim Traficant, Larry Craig, Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham, etc.) charged and convicted congressmen points out a harrowing fact.
If anyone needs to know what is wrong with our society and the people who choose to lead our government. Those convicted for stealing money, one way or the other, through fraud, bribery, extortion, etc., were given fairly harsh prison sentences. Cunningham got 8 1/2 years, Traficant got eight years and good ol' Bob Ney got 2 1/2 years.
But the man, William Janklow of South Dakota, who actually killed someone (while drunk and speeding), convicted of vehicular homicide, was sentenced to a whopping 100 days in prison. That is total bullshit!
When, oh when, will our society stop placing, and worshiping, money above the worth of another human being's life? When did theft become a more henious crime than killing someone?
Comedian-activist Dick Gregory used an analogy during his student assembly concert days inthe 1970s (when he was true greatness). He said that if a man broke into a woman's house, robbed her of $100 and then killed her, he would be branded a monster.
"Why did he kill her for $100?" people would scream.
But if he robbed her of $1 million out of her safe and killed her anyway, the reaction, Gregory claimed, would be different.
"What was she doing with that kind of money alying around?" they would posture. "She was asking for it."
But the woman would be just as dead. Except the money was different.
When those scales are tipped in favor of humanity, only THEN will our nation and society TRULY become great.