A LETTER FROM TEDDY ROOSEVELT

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Dear America:

As 26th President of the United States let me offer a few insights on your 21st century problems.

Let me remind you that we had Robber Barons in my day, just as you have now.

They had different names, of course, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Edward H. Harriman , but their attitudes were the same.

They wanted to build fiefdoms and if they had to do it on the dry bones of fired or underpaid employees, so be it.

So what should you do now almost one hundred years later?

Well, for openers stop making speeches and start doing the kind of things I did.

I sued forty-three corporations who were out of line.

Set up a Bureau of Corporations with powers to inspect the books of all businesses engaged in interstate commerce. Revived the all but forgotten Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

Indeed, it’s time to make more of those guilty of white collar crimes wear prison gray.

Your problem is your leadership pays too much attention to polls. There is no doubt that I had a big mouth, and used it. That I believed in the bully pulpit and would today make it loud and clear that business leadership will not be allowed to sup at the public trough whenever and however they please.

I call on your 21st century Americans to find some old fashion ethics, and go after those who are breaking them. I did.

Went after some judges bribed by a man named Jay Gould. Though I gave it my all I still lost, but did that stop me next time around? Not in a thousand years. Because in losing, I made it clear that when you did wrong Teddy Roosevelt would soon be banging on your front door.

Remember the Armour Meat Packing Company. Well, one day its founder and owner P. D. Armour, because his employees in a certain department had done such a wonderful job, decided he would offer each of them a new suit. In order to take advantage of such a generous offer, one young man ordered a suit costing $150, a very healthy sum at this particular point in history.

Receiving the bill, Mr. Armour called for the clerk to have him vouch for its accuracy. Finding that the billing was correct he assured the young man it would be paid. However, as the clerk was leaving Mr. Armour said, "I wish to say to you that I have processed a great many hogs in my time, but this is the first time I have ever dressed one."

I have noted that those guilty of playing accounting games constantly assert they have not broken any laws or changed the rules, but rather have only abided by that which is currently right and legal.

Nonsense!

As Billy Sunday said in my time, "When a man starts arguing that stealing is not a sin, don’t argue with him… search him."

I was watching a movie on your television the other day and the actor gave an impassioned speech underlining the importance of greed. "Greed," he said, "is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies. Greed will save the United States."

Really?

The rich getting richer while the poor get poorer will save our country? A CEO with millions in the bank and thousands of employees in the poor house? Salvation from stinginess?

Come on.

Sincerely,

Theodore Roosevelt

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