Trusting the System

I always used to hear in high school that I was too nice and that nice guys never ________________. You can complete that with what ever you like, but generally it was something like "get ahead" or "get the girl". It used to really make me angry watching the guy who acted like a complete ass get the girl I would have treated like a princess, or watch the kid who cheated on all his tests get the awards the guys like me who worked hard should have gotten.

Now I am watching tax cheats and outright liars run the greatest country in the world into the ground, and I wonder is trusting in the system worth it or should I start trying to get ahead by other means?

I've always heard that if I tithed I would be blessed... I've tithed, and now I have burnt through all my savings, am living paycheck to paycheck, and am going to have to borrow money from my mother just to be able to buy groceries this month.

I've always heard that if I worked hard, my work would speak for itself and I would be able to get ahead... I've worked my ass off the last six months, and yet the guys who sit on their ass for 40 minutes out of every hour and blow smoke up the right manager's ass get jobs I have applied for despite them being on the job a shorter time than me and never working as hard.

I've always thought that honest people would make the best politicians. Yet I watch honestly good people get destroyed by power hungry ego maniacs that lie out of both sides of their mouth...

When did the system go so wrong?

Prayers,

Pisio