Cowboy Ethics And The Boston Tea Party
The upheavals in Wall Street call to mind a favorite western book. I’m Susan Allen and after the break, Jeff will join me with some insight on ethics. Jeff, in my office I keep a copy of James. P. Owens book, Cowboy Ethics. It’s sub title, What Wall Street Can Learn from the Code of the West couldn’t be more relevant today could it? Susan four years ago when Owen, a thirty five year veteran of Wall Street, penned Cowboy Ethics none of conceived our country would be in the financial mess we’re in. Imagine if Wall Street had embraced even one of Owens ten cowboy principles; Live Each Day with Courage, Take Pride in your work, Always Finish What You Start, Be Tough, But Fair, When You Make A Promise, Keep It. Ride For the Brand, Talk Less And Say More, Remember That Some Things Aren’t For Sale, and Know Where to Draw the Line. Jeff, I’d say it’s time “we the people” stand up against bale outs and big government. There’s a New American Tea party brewing and April 1 millions of us will send a teabag to the President as a protest. Susan, the last paragraph of Cowboy Ethics states that “few of us will ever be called to test our courage against perils anything like a raging blizzard or a runaway herd of cattle. But every time we make a decision, we can ask ourselves, ”Is it right? Is it fair? We can decide that our honor and our reputations are not for sale.” I’m Jeff Keane.
New American Tea Party
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