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By: Rocky1

Rocky1 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:40:37 +0000

Your writings are, to me, logical and powerful expositions of the lack of honor and morality with a level of clariity I enjoy without a lecture.
I am 75 years of age and spent some 20 plus years in two major corporations in the United States. My wife, who is an American Citizen from Peruvian and I decided to move to Peru as soon as it was clear that we were about to elect a president who hates American and its citizens.
One of the corp’s I worked for was cooking the books by taking contracts as bookings while still in negotiations, bookings as shipments, and placing the contract on the receivables side of the ledger before equipment was installed or producing revenue.
When I discussed this situation with a neighbor who was an attorney and he grilled me seriously to review my actions as I was the head of marketing. We were at lunch in his office and he told me to go straight home, hire a good lawyer and never return to the corp’s premises. This is what I actually did and sent a letter to the corp’. This was the best an most financially rewarding position I had ever had and it turns, I was never able to earn the same level of income. I never regretted my decision as the corp’ was not an honorable firm.
The point of my comment is that I was raised with honor and loyalty as the movers in our lives. I have never failed in my personal honor or loyalty to my associates and family members.
I can assure you that I have worked since I was 10 years old and despite all the temptation$, I maintained my principles without compromise. Actually, a person of honor lives a life of decisions made simple and straight forward when made with honor.
Truly there is good vs evil and good is easier and thoroughly enjoyable.
Regards, Rocky1

By: Fanusi Khiyal

Fanusi Khiyal — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:29:28 +0000

“A problem of morality”

Got it in one. This question was, as a matter of fact, posed before. And answered. People, _Atlas Shrugged_ has been in print for over fifty years. Everything that Ayn Rand wrote about in it is coming true. Why not open it and take a gander?

By: Jj

Jj — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:34:09 +0000

I have some observations on Boards of Directors. I was invited on for a good non profit that kept elderly people at home as long as possible. I was not paid. My friend had started it, and his daughter and husband ran it. Took modest pay. It was very efficient until they retired. The new head had to take 3 times the pay, a problem, but not insurrmountable. But new board candidates started coming on. Not ordinary citizens as before, but professionals from legal and insurance back grounds. There were agenda’s at work. As all columns began to shrink, I was made to feel quite unwelcome in voicing concerns about why this was occuring. Annual meetings were called in resorts, and the work load ligthened tremendously. Much more time to golf. The Nursing Home lobby garnered far and away the lion’s share of grant monies. It was obvious what was going on, and I was unable to stop it. It went out of existence two years later. I had some hope with the Faith Based Charity concept, but the truth is, there is no end to the subterfuge. Experience shows things devolve from a movement, to a business, to a racket. Support your local charity on behalf of your community. Use your two eyes to observe whether to continue to do so. Demand the same of your elected officials. This is a duty, just as South Dakota sand bagged their towns to safety, including closing schools and using school kids. Best lesson they wll ever get. FEMA ordered them to leave, but stopped short of shooting them for not listening.

By: DD

DD — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:26:08 +0000

“So, what is a house worth? Here’s my novel answer: unparalleled freedom for the owner once his abode is paid for.”
A: You never really own a home – you just lease it from the county. Just stop paying your property tax, you’ll find out.

Reminds me of my favorite beatitude: Blessed are they that have nothing, for they have nothing to lose.
-DD

By: airfoil

airfoil — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:06:08 +0000

When the Texas SuperCollider went Belly, there were hundreds, if not thousands, of unemployed math types looking for mischief. They found the Street, a match made in the ninth circle of Hell, IMO.

Liz, thank you for underpinning the true source of our “malady”, a loss of spirit and Spirit. Amen to your post.

By: Liz Le Mond

Liz Le Mond — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:31:38 +0000

MuscleDaddy, you are SOO right…

I once read that, back in 1907 or so, when a crisis like today’s was looming, J.P. Morgan was able to gather the heads of the banks involced, with their ledgers, and keep them in his library until the problem was solved. Nope, they just don’t make captains of industry like they used to.

And a big reason is that many of our “elites” have forgotten that things like reputation, integrity, and trust are a vital part of the moral “mortar” that holds the walls of society together against the constant attacks of whatever barbarians are out there. And today’s worst barbarians are those who are spreading that fog of corrosive ideas (“if it feels good do it,” “it’s never my fault,” there are no absolutes”)which has oozed out from the swamps of college lecture halls, faculty symposia, and scholarly meetings to blind so many. That’s SOO much more effective, and far less messy, than swords, flame, or axes.

And, without belaboring the point, the foundation of those walls has to be something beyond man – the God of the Bible, our creator and redeemer, the ultimate source of right and wrong.

I also think I read that some of the “creative” investment instruments that are choking the economy were designed by mathematicans or astrophysicists?!! Hell-ooo!!…string theory meets economics!!?? Is there something wrong with that picture?

By: Mike M.

Mike M. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:43:09 +0000

Bill, your big picture is something that Adam Smith spotted and warned us of two centuries ago. Large, wealthy businesses will ALWAYS try to use the Government to shut down smaller competitors. What is good for any specific large firm is usually NOT good for America.

And the old saying that “You can’t cheat an honest man” still applies. Always did, always will.

By: airfoil

airfoil — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:53:49 +0000

On a slow day at the Sahara, I was thinking about the table in front of me, the expanse of green felt where people had fun throwing money down the two holes at either end. (I was a Croupier). It occurred to me that it represented the fundament of Capitalism gone wrong. A busy game would have 20 players tossing chips and cash at the House, and perhaps a hundred people crunching them from behind to get a look at the action. Tell me how this picture is not like the Street or the Merc. When GS went down in ’99, “Products” were invented to satisfy the insatiable hunger of the Banks, (NOT the depositors), for action. With fistfuls of money (NOT their own), Bankers were insanely enveloped in the FEVER. In the ensuing decade, the action, backed up by NOTHING, slowed, and the Mountain of Debt of the crazy gamblers bagan to implode. It was as if the entire Nation was sucked into a vortex of quick-money madness, like a Super Bowl, or a crap game on 17th and Webster, in Oakland.

Grampa bet the FARM, and now we’re skint. Anyone disagree? Anyone care to put a finer point on this?

By: airfoil

airfoil — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:31:35 +0000

With all due respect, Ron Pisaturo, I think you don’t understand Derivatives. Derivatives are a POSITION, not a mortgage, or a group of mortgages. It is a form of Pari-Mutuel BETTING, where money is made on the relative value of what MAY happen; Buying and Selling a construct, a possibility, much like betting a friend which fly will launch first off the window-pane.

If all we had to worry about was dropping RE values, we wouldn’t be here talking about why those who didn’t even know the game was on (You?) are expected to cover the losses of the big players who climbed aboard, too late. Don’t buy anything you don’t understand, let alone risk money you can’t afford to lose, or someone else’s.

Congress is stealing the Lunch Money of the as yet unborn, to stay out of Jail, and keep some of their friends from getting killed.

just sayin’