Almost forgot. This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from my Dad: “The problem with high ideals is that they are seldom easy to live by.”
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This is a little over the top, don’t you think? Now that I know that Emigrant is a TARP baby it will be easy enough to move my money once I find a non-TARP bank.
This says way more about how tough it is to find a good, honest bank than it does about my ideals.
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I think anyone who purports to have “high ideals” that assesses their life with the least bit of honesty will find it full of hypocrisy. I’ve yet to witness an exception. In fact, I’d say that there is a direct correlation between the purported height of one’s ideals and the degree of hypocrisy with which they conduct their lives. Personally, I have fairly low ideals – I’m a pragmatist. In some ways, quasi-Machiavellian. But I don’t pretend to be otherwise, so I don’t have to lie to myself.[/quote]
Dave: After 12 years of Jesuit Catholic education, including eight spent in seminary school, I’m all for pragmatism and Machiavellian reasoning.
Breezhnev’s problem is that one cannot simultaneously scream about a system that one is an integral part of.
I remember during Gulf War I, there was a protest against the war in Washington, DC. There was an attractive co-ed holding a sign that said “No Blood for Oil”. When the interviewer asked where she was from, she replied, “Michigan”. When asked how she got to DC from Michigan, she replied, “I drove”. I damn near fell off the couch, I was laughing so hard. Oh, the irony. Lost on her, of course, the way it’s lost on Breezie.
