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.
