Category Archives: Ethics

Thin Skinned

Somehow, I find it hard to believe this man is our President.

Someone Needs to Explain This

GM Plans To Cut Debt And Pension Obligations By $11B

October 29, 2010

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Co. says it will cut its debt and pension obligations by $11 billion.

The announcement comes as GM prepares for an initial public sale of company stock.

GM says it will reduce its obligations by buying $2.1 billion worth of preferred stock from the U.S. government. The automaker says it will buy the preferred shares after the initial public offering, which is expected next month.

The U.S. government got a 61 percent ownership stake in GM, plus the preferred stock, in exchange for a $50 billion bailout to get the company through bankruptcy protection last year.

GM will also pay down $2.8 billion owed to a union retiree health care trust fund and pump roughly $6 billion in stock and cash into its underfunded pension plan.

How Un-American of Him

Charlie Crist.

” … pushing Kendell Meek to “do what’s right” and withdraw from the Florida senate race.”

What a piece of work.

Psst, hey Floridians, make sure he doesn’t get any more work. Okay?

Oh. And, Billy Boy. Keep your nose out of it.

IRS Stonewalling Requests

Senators Complain IRS is Stonewalling Inspector General
Washington, D.C.
(October 20, 2010)

By WebCPA Staff

A pair of U.S. senators has written to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and the heads of a dozen other federal agencies asking why they have erected roadblocks to investigative efforts of their agencies’ watchdogs, their inspectors general.

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This Isn’t Right

Portland residents will vote Nov. 2 on a proposal to give legal residents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in local elections, joining places like San Francisco and Chicago that have already loosened the rules or are considering it.

Noncitizens hold down jobs, pay taxes, own businesses, volunteer in the community and serve in the military, and it’s only fair they be allowed to vote, Rwaganje said.

Wait a minute. He lived here for 13 years and didn’t bother to become a citizen? What held him back? Why wouldn’t he want to become a citizen beforehand? He didn’t try?

As for the city, I have a problem with this approach. They could have helped him, and others, on the path to citizenship well before this. What the h-e-double-toothpicks is wrong with them?

Patriotism Broke Free

At a League of Women Voters Candidate Debate.

BOOYAH!

Not Quite Correct

In fact, Keith Ellison demonstrates he is totally unaware of the human condition.

Completely.

At the very least, Juan William’s honesty about his misgivings on the plane at that time demonstrates human self-preservation due to his knowledge of recent tragic events.

That’s it. In a thoroughly human nutshell.

Which tells me how “inhuman” Ellison probably is.
And not quite the American he thinks of himself.

Meathead

There’s a reason why he had that name. See if you can figure it out.

I did. Sigh, what a maroon. He’s still just an actor trying to live in and through the past.

Assumption Undone

Fortunately, for this union worker.

Even so, this episode reminds many of the intolerance some have no matter what the truth really is. Nor, do they care to think it through in the first place.

Glad I don’t work, or pay dues, to that union.

Waiting For An American Hero