Ethics Rules: Here's the deal, explained to me early on in my teaching career. When you make a rule, you imagine what it will be like if your best kid breaks that rule. Can you imagine yourself enforcing your rule say, for plagiarism, if your most outstanding student plagiarizes a paper?? If you can't imagine yourself enforcing the rule, then modify the rule before you issue it, until you can enforce it for every kid in your class.
So President Obama . . . if you're not going to allow previous lobbyists to serve in your administration, then that applies to everyone. No waivers. Otherwise, you're not really about changing the culture in Washington. You're just changing it when it suits you. Or worse, you appear to be a hypocrite. YOUR lobbyists are o.k., others are not.
While I'm at it. Why should anyone who has failed to pay his/her taxes be confirmed to serve in your administration? Fortunately, Tom Daschle withdrew. But what about Tim Geithner? He's actually going to be overseeing the financial institutions in this country and he couldn't pay his taxes? Turbo-tax failed him. A couple of sharp women were denied offices during the Clinton years and ridiculed in the press because of employing immigrants and not paying social security for them. Is this just about the same old double standard?
I admire you for taking the moral high ground. The question is, can you stay on that moral high ground??
2 comments:
Good thought, Red. In that same spirit, I've been reviewing your tax files and there seems to be a slight problem with your 2005 return. I'm afraid you'll have to cease all blogging until you pay $2,716 in back taxes. Sorry.
Yeah, I've made a few small mistakes on returns in the past, after spending 37 hours and 15 minutes filling out the 1040EZ form . . .
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