Jen's Political Blog: Shame on Thain

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Shame on Thain

What the h_ _ _ were/are you thinking?
$87,000 rug?
$25,000 pedestal table?
$68,000 credenza?
$19,000 pendant light?
$28,000 for four curtains?
$87,000 pair of guest chairs?
$18,000 George IV chair? (One recently sold at Christie's for $2210!!!)
$2,700 for six wall sconces?
$1,400 parchment waste can? (Are you serious???-thanks SNL!)
$18,282 Roman shade?
$5,852 coffee table?
$35,115 antique commode?
An article on CNBC.com listed these items and the price Thain paid for them. Then they showed comparable articles for faaaaar less than these items. John Thain (Merrill Lynch)--shame on you!!! whether or not your company was losing money, which it was!

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Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
~ Abraham Lincoln

We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.
~ John Adams

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
~ James Madison

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.
~ Samuel Adams

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
~ John Quincy Adams

The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.
~ Justice Hugo Black

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.
~ Justice William Douglas

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
~ Frederick Douglass

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no Constitution, no court, can even do much to help it.
~ Justice Learned Hand

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free.
~ Ronald Reagan

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
~ Justice Joseph Story

Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.
~ Daniel Webster

America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.
~ Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin

That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

~Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766

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