Integrity: Is Such a Lonely Word
Nobody’s Opinion
—-that long ago, when America was founded, the integrity of a man meant something. Our founders wrote about it—they strove to be decent, honest, caring, and proud. Integrity has disappeared..in fact, men with little integrity are all over the news today.
Nobody’s Perfect
One man a bit short on it is Bill Gates. He was being interviewed by Christiane Amanpour today, and I was having a hard time watching him. I don’t see how any man can have the sheer tenacity to expect the American people to “pay” for the rest of the world’s many problems, but that’s exactly what he wants. He says the rich only have so much money so it only makes sense that WE the American people have to help the poor all over the world. It won’t cost us much he says…only 1%. Nobody Cares if it costs 2o percent, it’s not his job to redistribute our money.
He is NOT an elected official.
Steve Jobs evidently has said some pretty nasty things about him in a newly released book, so Bill made a few comments about some people “going to India”or experimenting with drugs…and how Steve’s products cost too much..etc. Nevertheless, Bill Gates wants our money…to save the world.
Nobody Knows
Just this past week, we have witnessed gigantic lies being spewed out like hoards of Canadian flies, by our fearless leaders on both sides of the Atlantic.
Obama came out and announced that every single American soldier would be bought home from Iraq by the end of December. That’s a lie. In fact, thousands of them are going to Kuwait and he is also sending more ships to the Persian Gulf.
Iranian war fever is being pumped up by everyone, and those of us here who could care less about some kind of assassination attempt of some Saudi ambassador..have found out once again, that our opinion doesn’t matter. It seems our Congress and even the Tea Party Candidate Michelle Bachmann is up in arms about it and ready to go to war with Iran.
Over an ‘attempt’.
Never mind that NO one was assassinated, and that the United States has been assassinating men on their soil for quite some time now. And since Obama seems to be on a roll, why not just assassinate Ahmadinejad? Is it any wonder we seem like hypocrites to the world?
On the other side of the Atlantic, our old mother England, under the strong arm of Cameron, has completely ignored it’s promises ( they lie too) to give their own people the right to vote on whether to even be a part of the EU.
European democracy…is dead according to Vox Day:
Being for the most part historically illiterate, few intellectuals are prepared to admit that modern representative democracy and the basic concept of individual rights are 18th century phenomena that were the byproducts of a Christian society. They prefer to attribute both institutions to the Enlightenment, despite the fact that it was the Enlightenment that led directly to the revolutionary horrors of the French revolution and it is the Enlightenment that presently serves as the inspiration for the anti-democratic authoritarian bureaucracy of the European Union. the United Kingdom, all three major political parties are actively denying the English, Welsh and Scottish peoples the opportunity to vote on continued subjugation to the European Union, despite the fact that all three parties promised a referendum on the EU of one sort or another.
WhenEurope loses all sense of democracy,the United States will be right behind her. Democracy, and integrity go hand in hand and the written laws of both countries are being completely ignored.
Nobody Flashes
Jeb Bush just said this:
Republican candidates should categorically reject the notion that President Obama was not born in the United States,” said Bush. “It is a complete distraction from the failed economic policies of the president.”
that Jeb Bush will run someday for President with Mark Rubio as his VP. Rubio, cannot be President under our Constitution. If that one rule would have been followed, we would not be in the horrible mess.
Over in England, the rules of ascendency to the throne are being ignored and changed. Girl royal babies can now inherit the throne. What a better way for the Royal family to keep in the good graces of the people than to have the new royal couple have girl child, name her Diana, and then the future of the monarchy will thrive on the memory of the most beloved Royal in our lifetime?
Nobody’s Fool
The good news is: I witnessed true integrity in a humble baseball couch today. Who knew? Surprised the heck out of me. After all the big World Series parades, the confetti, the cheers,— Tony la Russa, the Coach of the Cardinals, got up and talked about…How proud he was…no wait…he didn’t talk about that. He started off with his love of the Busch Clysdesdales horses….and how happy he was that they were using them again. He said it was one of the reasons he came to St. Louis. He loves those horses.
There were not many dry eyes today as we watched Tony ride into the stadium on beer truck pulled by those magnificent animals. As they lead the parade. Each beautiful leg prancing high steps….strong. Proud. Champions in their own right…and right in the middle of the street…among all the cheers, one of the lead horses leaned over to the other lead horse and they both nuzzles each other as if to say…
They knew, who knows how? But they knew.
Tony didn’t say the usual blah blah…team…yada yada speech. No…more than any man there..he was the one who really thanked the fans…by mentioning how the people stood up…in the 9th innings, when the Cardinals were down…all hope lost, and cheered the guys on to win. Without that moment long ago, they would not have won the series, Tony said, and it was the people that did it. And then Tony showed true class. Out of the blue, he bought up a player who didn’t even get to play. He praised the integrity of the man.
Maybe we should put the coaches in charge.
“Integrity..is such a lonely word, everyone is so untrue…Integrity is hardly ever heard, but mostly what we need from you.”
Integrity. You know it, when you see it, and you don’t see enough of it.Bernie Madoff’s Social Security Scheme
Nobody Gets Email
This email speaks for itself. We should all remember this when they talk about Social Security. 
(Thanks to Tom Beebe)
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Why did Bernie Madoff go to prison? To make it simple, he talked people into investing with him. Trouble was, he didn’t invest their money. As time rolled on he simply took the money from the new investors to pay off the old investors. Finally there were too many old investors and not enough money from new investors coming in to keep the payments going.
Next thing you know, Madoff is one of the most hated men in America and he is off to jail. Some of you know this, but not enough of you. Madoff did to his investors what the government has been doing to us for over 70 years with Social Security. There is no meaningful difference between the two schemes, except that on was operated by a private individual who is now in jail, and the other is operated by politicians who enjoy perks, privileges and status in spite of their actions.
Do you need a side-by side comparison here? Well, here’s a nifty chart.
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BERNIE MADOFF |
SOCIAL SECURITY |
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1. Takes money from investors with the promise that the money will be invested and made available to them later. |
1. Takes money from wage earners with the promise that the money will |
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2. Instead of investing the money Madoff spends it on nice homes in the Hamptons and yachts etc. |
2. Instead of depositing money in a Trust Fund the politicians transfer it to the ‘General Revenue Fund’ and use it for general spending and vote buying. |
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3. When the time comes to pay the investors back Madoff simply uses some of the new funds from newer investors to pay back the older investors. |
3. When benefits for older investors become due the politicians pay them with money taken from younger and newer wage earners to pay the older people. |
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4. When Madoff’s scheme is discovered all hell breaks loose. New |
4. When Social Security runs out of money the politicians try to force |
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5. Bernie Madoff goes to jail; then who pays his medical, housing and |
5. Politicians remain in Washington… with fat medical and retirement benefits. |
The Taxpayer; That is someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
“If you put the federal government in charge of the “Sahara Desert”, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”
–Milton Friedan
Pass this on to Another Taxpayer.
About
I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
Joyanna Adams
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