Choices – Eliot Spitzer’s Harvard Ethics Speech
Friday, November 13th, 2009On Fox & Friends a different video clip was shown, which I have not able to find yet, in this clip Mr. Spitzer explains the choices; the choices between integrity and brokers making the sale, integrity and firms profits, integrity and the company raising the money and he states the choice made was the later, and what is lacking is truth. This got me thinking!
Now what I find interesting is that he feels government unlike the SEC can bring integrity to human choice on Wall Street and in business. I disagree!
I believe government takes away choice and whether it is a broker on Way Street, a husband and father out of town on business or a government employee assigned to regulate private business and trade, or even your health care; it comes to choices. Choices we as human beings have to make for ourselves, choices we as human beings unfortunately will sometimes choose incorrectly, but choices we have to make!
You know for me government is a lot like religion if you leave it up the other person, you won’t get what you expect. We will not find in others what we lack in ourselves, it starts with each person and the choice he or she is willing to make in the little things.
No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. Matthew 6:24
I do not know if I would vote for Eliot Spitzer given a chance, but I do know I prefer him than many I see and hear today on Capitol Hill. Only a person who has been humbled by their own human condition can understand those who put themselves before and above others in the choices they make. Only a person who has been humbled by their own human condition can understand how to keep and put others first and above themselves.
We all have choices to make; be ready, stay prepared and most of all do not judge and chose wisely.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers’ eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? Matthew 7:3
