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March 09, 2021
Sometimes we, as commentators, use our columns to pontificate about the correct moral and ethical thing to do, but I wonder if we were placed in positions of power would we not have done the same things that we condemn public officials for doing. I am thinking of Winston Duke, his wife, Kim de Silva, and all the other spouses of powerful men and women in government and trade unions who use their official connections to set up their better halves in business in which they are connected.
T&T is no exception.
A few days ago the inspector general of the U.S. Transportation Department in which Elaine Chao, the former transportation secretary during the Trump administration and wife of Mitch McConnell, the minority leader and most powerful Republican in the US, was accused of using her office to promote her family business that is led by her father and her sister.
It occurs in
both parties and in every aspect of national life. I do not hold myself exempt from or above such behavior. As I said, if I held a national office,
I may have done the same thing.
When the righteous abdicate, the wicked rule, and all of us suffer.
This is what has happened these past 2,600-odd years. Jacob abdicated, by reason of disobedience, and Esau rose in his stead to exercise the dominion. The whole world has suffered as a consequence. For Esau’s rule has been by the sword.
“And
by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass
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