Herman School of Business
Where Is Our Honor?
I accept the notion that my country conducted activities that were an abomination on some of our enemy. There is genuine sorrow in my heart that the President I helped elect twice performed cruel and unmerciful acts of torture on human beings…against everything I ever believed about what made Americans different from our enemy.
We will be paying for those acts of torture for decades.
The oil companies traveled the globe to punch holes in the ground so they could suck profits from deep inside the earth…at any environmental cost at all. Being in a “third world” setting the larger than life oil companies acted with total disregard for the rules of nature and the lack of morality in destroying the lands and water systems around the world. That people got sick and died didn’t matter to those taking the profits.
It is an incredible thing to me that people in America buy stock in a company that dispenses cigarettes that injure and kill millions of people and waste hundreds of millions of dollars in health care annually. Just because over a hundred years ago legitimate people sold a product without knowledge of the damage it was causing should not give them a pass to keep selling the poison now that we know the consequences. Somehow the “right to profits” trumps doing the “right thing.”
A small number of people running the banks have been allowed to suck millions of dollars out of our pockets and then perpetrate a huge fraud almost wiping out the economy of our country. Pension funds were wiped out, mortgages were obtained and then sold and resold with no regard for the ability to have them paid back. Elected officials who served on the Committees for oversight failed at their tasks…now hand back hundreds of millions of dollars to those who committed the frauds.
Doesn’t this bother anyone else?
- Posted: 6 May 2009
- Comments: 2
- Category: Business success
Comments
Yes me, this is why I helped register voters in Germany (here I live). We just registered about 200 in our chapter. But it was the best we could do.
Before, I felt I haven’t done enough to stop the re-election of Bush.
I am a Democrat but I care more about the person than his party.
Written by Oliver Pospisil on 3 July 2009
As another former Bush supporter I too am completely disgusted with the turn of events. We are at a crossroads in our country, of that much I am certain. We are at a point in history that requires us to make the hard choices that will effect our existence for the next millenium. I pray that we can choose wisely. Otherwise, our future generations will reap the harvest of our failure. Great post!
Written by Louis Rosas-Guyon on 1 June 2009