Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Remember this day...


 

For almost 15 years, I have written about the three key principles of leadership.  They are: 

  • Maintaining a high moral standard 

  • Maintaining a high ethical standard 

  • Maintaining strict adherence to the law 

Upon these three principles, you can build the character necessary to become an effective leader.  Your behaviour will provide assurance to others that they can count on you to be consistent to the values that you have expressed and under which they have committed to work.  It is essentially a covenant to be your best. 

Throughout much of the 20th century, and well into this century, the United States of America has accepted this mantle of responsibility to be the ‘leader of the free world’.  They have policed and protected their allies; they have generously fed and healed the poor across the globe; and they have been a beacon of hope to the displaced.  They have done these things because of their general acceptance of the moral, ethical and legal obligations associated with leadership. 

REMEMBER THIS DAY, BECAUSE ALL OF THAT HAS ENDED. 

It has been a gradual slide into ignobility, but the slide has now become a free fall. The fault does not lay solely at the feet of Donald Trump, though to be certain, he is the figure head.  It lays at the feet of those who are closest to him and who counsel him and who manipulate him.  It lays at the feet of his members of congress who abdicate their duties and serve his will.  It lays at the feet of the US Supreme Court which behaves like a secret police force to validate the misdeeds of the elected officials. 

Today, the US Senate passed legislation that will add $3.5 trillion to the US debt.  Today, USAID, ceased to operate. Today, the US acknowledged that desperately needed munitions to Ukraine will be delayed.  Today, the over 800 billionaires in the US became ever richer due to tax reductions.  They need this assistance because since the start of the pandemic in 2020, their collective wealth has only increased by 88%. 

Under Donald Trump’s presidencies, US debt will have increased by about $11.5 trillion.  That’s a pretty big number that most of us cannot comprehend.  So let me express it in a manner that we can better grasp.  If you spent $1 million per day, it would take over 31,000 YEARS to exhaust the funds...assuming you earned no interest. 

ONE TRILLION DOLLARS...could eradicate hunger around the world... 

ONE TRILLION DOLLARS...could eradicate homelessness around the world... 

ONE TRILLION DOLLARS...could eradicate disease around the world... 

ONE TRILLION DOLLARS...could impact climate change around the world... 

But ELEVEN TRILLIN DOLLARS will not restore a moral, ethical or legal conscience to the United States of America. Because money can destroy a soul, it cannot buy one. 

REMEMBER THIS DAY...AND PRAY!