The ethical issue has been raised to the highest level by the government of Donald J. Trump.

One of the strongest issues is the extent and limits of power of any one person in whatever office to which they have been elected.

Does the voting public expect its representatives to be honest; to be truthful as it moves on to the many areas of its authority; does it overstep its authority ahd claim vindication because it moves the government into a bigger better place? Do the elected representatives have the right to lie, cheat and steal to move the people they represent into a place where some of them are wealthier, have more power and will move to create a Nirvana for the rest of the citizens.

The tariff issue facing the Supreme Court is one of the largest of the issues facing these United States. Another very ethical issue is destroying a government officials reputation including firing under circumstances which make another position in government or business not likely so that the president can take over the Federal Reserve Board and have it bow to his wishes the way Donald Trump is doing with Lisa Cook?

It has become very clear and provable that the charges Trump used to attempt to fire Ms. Cook were not true and made up for the situation.

Should the Supreme Court ignore everything that their ruling will affect and move to rule in a way that those in power are most benefitted? Even if those benefits might also trickle down to the lesser citizens?

Should the United States president be allowed to demean, insult, embarress whomever he chooses just to let off steam so the person he is attacking will have their reputation smeared by the President of these United States and he then feels better emotionally because he has let out his frustration at only being president and not being God?

Donald Trump has claimed that for the Supreme Court to rule against his tariff power that he has assumed it would spell doom for the American Economy. Does that set in place the grounds on which the Supreme Court should rule – ignoring the laws and the constitution? Taking into consideration Trump’s claims about the damage ruling against him would bring on the economy and the country and ruling so as not to embarress the president and/or to help bring about a definition of president very changed from what this country has always been about? Or should it rule taking only into consideration the dictates of the laws and the constitution?

Didn’t we have a time in this country when the Supreme Court of the United States upheld racism, sexism and more by ruling that separatism was legal? Are we going back to visit that kind of Supreme Court in a society very much changed from the one surrounding the Court when it made that ruling?

With a president in office like Donald Trump, who has shown his ethics to be in the dumpster, when does that kind of leadership, if followed by the government structures like the Supreme Court ,cease to be a democracy and become a criminal enterprise/mafia with Trump being not president, but the Mafia Boss head of a country that once was a democracy?

Everybody can do something!

A new group under Bettina Network Hedge Schools Foundation, inc.

The brain child of Marceline, of course.  She does things.  Sometimes we wish she would retire, but that won’t happen so here we go – again.

She says “I am so tired of being old.  It shows me too much about what people are really like.  When you grow old in this society the assumption is you can do nothing, know nothing, want nothing, etc. and everyone tries to help you walk when, actually, you exercise and ride a stationary bike everyday.  That help comes if you falter in your walk or trip over something – the assumption is that you need to stop walking.  There are other assumptions made if that happens and you have no gray hair or wrinkles.

What is the problem?  The very segregated society in which we live is the problem.  The denial of our common and equal humanity is the problem.  We continue that kind of society and follow the leaders who re-enforce that kind of separatism because it makes us feel “better than.”  And that is a feeling we refuse to abandon.

Everybody can do something.

I remember Spencer Rice – the rector of Trinity Church Copley Square in the 1980’s who hired retired Episcopal priests to help with the services on Sunday mornings.  What did they do?  He had six each Sunday.  They served communion.  No matter your mental or physical condition, as a priest you can assist with the service by serving communion.  

I remember they processed behind the choir, as normal.  Some could not walk without a cane or more; some had trouble communicating because their minds were going or gone, some were just old and retired and no one else would hire them because they should stay retired – as some of us promote that to happen in this unequal and oppressive society trying to portray some of us as superior to others both mentally, physically and emotionally..

Sometimes it was funny seeing these elderly priests hobble into church in the procession and leave at the end of the service in the recession out of the sanctuary along with the other Assistant Priests.

That stuck in my mind because today I have a retired Episcopal priest husband who – outside of Bettina Network, inc. and its subsidiaries,- with his Harvard University doctorate and so much more – is considered someone who can’t function and should stay retired.  It is amazing what he can do, but is treated in such a way that he can do nothing.

I do a lot – because our vocational choices were different.  I struggled for decades trying to succeed in the traditional ways and as a black woman had many “vocations”.  In each, I had to fight the system that did not want a black female to do anything except clean other peoples houses and/or other such work.

That is the society in which we live.  I tried many things, but in the end my job as a stock broker (first African American registered broker in the country) and then gave it up because the racism and sexism were extreme.  I did not lose interest in the market, however, I just didn’t have time to focus on things like day trading.

Today I focus on that because I can.  I can because it is too difficult to push my way into other things and my family background and most of my many vocations have been entrepreneurial.  I can because no one hires or fires me and I am on my own doing this in my own space.  The only limitation is if I lose all of our money and then I have to find something else to do.

So every morning about 3-4am I get up (which is what my age dictates I do); turn on the television and hit the papers and other financial materials getting ready to do my thing for the day.

Needless to say that is my only choice in finance, the only thing I can do in that area, because no one would hire an 87 year old woman to do anything.  What is expected of me is to retire quietly; do nothing; gradually physically, mentally and emotionally deteriorate and then die – preferably quietly.

Something is wrong with that picture.  I can function and Robert can function, until we die, doing something.  Maybe my thoughts about this come from my grandmother who was an entrepreneur.  She designed and made clothes, gowns, all kinds of things.  She was in the process of designing and sewing a gown for a Carnival Queen in New Orleans the day she died.  She was well into her 80’s.  Her creations only got better with age and she hired people to do what she could no longer do in that design process.  The people she hired could not get jobs in other places so that worked out for many.

WHAT ABOUT YOU?  Are you going to join me – doing something or working with other really old people to do something?  Everybody can do something and it is time we started a society in which everyone has worth and can contribute – what they want to contribute; what their talents say they can contribute; what their abilities allow them to contribute and so much more.  That is what we are adding to Bettina Network Hedge School Foundation, inc.

You don’t have to be perfect, wealthy, in good health, or even sane (whatever that means).  You can do something.  It is one way to help create a society of equals instead of this society in which we live of the “better than” and all the rest of us.  You don’t have to be perfect you just have to be alive to do something – make some contribution to this world on a constant ongoing basis.  If what you choose to do doesn’t work for you and the society, try something else, but constantly use your life to do something.

I had no idea how horribly the elderly are treated in this society.  You used to be sent to the “Old Folks Homes”.  Today you are sent to “Assisted Living”, “Retirement Communities”, “Nursing Homes” where you are separated from the rest of the world so they don’t have to come to grips with the fact that they too will age soon.

Junk those concepts and get out and do something.  Anything – one thing turns into something else until you find something you can do.  When your physical or mental ability changes then you change what you do.

God forgive us for turning your creation into this place of “I am better than you so I will provide lesser places for you to be until you die.”  We will try to change that into “my contributions in this life are important and I will continue to make some kind of contribution until I die.”  Others will just have to accommodate and move ahead with me and my infirmities until they have learned magnificent lessons in the process about accepting and working with their and my humanity and abilities.“

Last time we had someone like Trump as president, his name was Herbert Hoover. Today, Trump is re-shaping America in such a way that we think of Hoover as a reprieve from someone like Trump.

LISA COOK was given a temporary stay in her post with the Federal Reserve Board. We hope she continues and moves the needle against Trump who is accusing her of something he was accused of and many people think deservedly so – mortgage fraud. He has no problems raising himself above those who have worked hard and not come close to his reputation nor his horrendous deeds. Trump is the stereotype of the White Male Northern European type who has caused multi millions horrendous problems and has cost many their lives and families.

A man who has been involved in mortgage fraud, four bankruptcies, is convicted as a felon for sexual abuse, tries to distance himself from his decades long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein who is being shown to be one of the largest and most horrible criminals of our time. Epstein’s criminality evolved around, but was not limited to children. It looks as though Donald Trump’s does also.

It also looks as though some of his appointees at the highest level were also involved and used the sexual deviants ring to procure adolescent sex, sexualized massages and so much more. What does that say for the United States government? Sexual offenders and deviants of the highest order at the top of our government – the one at the very top has no problems accusing others of that which he has done and is he still doing? Is Trump using his office for cover, protection and to gain entrance into the private parts of children he would not otherwise be able to reach? Think

It is really tiresome to see such deviancy – such criminal deviancy on the news practically daily and a president of these United States involved at the top level with such people. He clearly had a decades long involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. Now he turns around and is trying to smear the reputation of good, hard working people. It is Lisa Cook today – who will it be tomorrow? Is his cabinet defending him because they are also guilty of similar deviancies and crtimes? Think of that America!!!!! You have put your children within reach of sexual deviants and those who would take them down evil trails.

WAKE UP America before it is too late – if it is not already too late. Trump has and is contin uing to remove mostly African Americans from every top spot he could reach – one after another with Lisa Cook only being the latest such casualty of Trimp’s racism. And his sexism? And his attempts to remove all Latina’s from this country so he can replace them with the equivalent of White South Africans who have the attitudes that such people held pre-Mandela and who wanted and still want South Africa to be only White at the top levels? Those are being encouraged to hold dual citizenship so they can be of use to Trump who is trying to do the same thing in these United States?

Having filed FOUR bankruptcies your way of living is set. When you become involved with another institution, company, etc., especially as its head your persona and ways of being automatically start to move to bring that institution, company, country into bankruptcy, especially if you are trying and don’t know how to bring wealth to yourself AND others, but must destroy to accomplish bringing worldly gold to yourself – or should we say worldly crypto?

Trump’s reputation and deeds are public – God only knows about the parts of Trump and his deeds that are not public.

Is this where you want your country to go, how you want it to be and who you wanht it to follow? Is this the type of person you want your children to grow up to be like? Is this the role model you are putting out to the rest of the world which really says – this is America and this is who we want the rest of you leaders to mimic and follow?

God, it is time to take your revenge and bring goodness back into these United States. Evil has overtaken this United States government. PLEASE GOD, let us know you are still here and still God!

Donald Trump headed four businesses and bankrupted all four. Why? Because he did not know what he was doing – he did not know how to develop and run a business growing it and making it a successful corporate entity.

The Bettina Network Blog copied the list of bankruptcies and what they were about from the information put together and distributed by Marco Rubio when he was running for president against Trump. It tells you what is happening in these United States today and yes it is accurate. In fact it is not as ugly and viral as it could be describing Donald Trump’s bankruptcies, how they occured, how Trump’s inability to lead without resorting to evil, bigotry and more caused those bankrupties.

What is amazing is that Marco Rubio – now Secretary of State under Donald Trump as president – knows what is happening and is noy only standing by watching while the rest of us go down the tube into a state no one should have to endure, but doing and saying nothing while he watches – his effort and energy is being put into promoting himself while allowing everyone else to go down into the evil Trump is creating.

What we are constantly asking is bankruptcies, sexual abuse, dozens of accusations from women of sexual assault and so much more are all known to the general American public and yet the collaboration of Trump and Epstein is held into question. We are still saying – maybe Trump really didn’t know what Epstein and Maxwell were doing. Maybe he was an innocent just being friends with someone he really did not know. Being Epstein’s closest friend for over a decade who did not know the kind of evil he was actually a part of. That was all known before Donald Trump became president.

What is wrong with the people who supported and voted for him as he ran for president.

Donald Trump’s decades long close friendship with Epstein was well known. Pictures were in the media and lots of columns written. Epstein’s reputation and career as someone who sexually assaulted even young children was known as was Trump’s reputation in the same areas. He is today a man who is a convicted felon. He was convicted because of his sexual abuse of a tremendous woman and now has to pay her substantial sums of money. Many women came forward to testify as to how Trump assaulted them. We heard and saw all of that and still voted for the man who was a part of the Epstein sexual abuse community, which included children, for president of these United States.

What are the hidden activities of those supporting Donald Trump? Those who were appointed to positions in his government know very well his history and reputation. Are they there supporting him because they themselves are people who see nothing wrong with sexual assault, pedophilia, etc and their greed and power needs outstrip their needs for decency and honesty in this U. S. Government? Are they guilty of it themselves? Or are they so over the line into other kinds of criminality that their ethics are in the toilet and they see nothing wrong with a man making choices for the country out of that kind of ethical belief system that they can support him?

Donald Trump’s racism, sexism and other negatives in the commission of which he uses seeing himself as “better than” are on high display and always have been since he was a very young person. It is not likely that with that kind of history he would be able to separate himself from his bigotry. His sexual abuse proclivities go back to his grandfather who used women to “succeed” with prostitution and a known brothel.

There are many conjectures as to why he is going after immigrants in such a vicious, cruel and evil manner? Take note that the immigrants he is having ICE and others to seek out and remove in horrible ways from this country are almost 100% Latina, Hispanic, – some kind of minority. People most Americans saw as becoming too prolific in this country with racism and more against them beginning to rise.

Trump is now having a problem with India. Is that a surprise to anyone from a man who considers people of color – as Indians most certainly are – not those who should be acknowledged on any equal level?

His immigration acdtivities are bringing into this country White South Africans – preferably those who were a part of the APARTHEID in South Africa and who could and would help develop such in this country. The United States with its history of slavery and its current practice of racism, sexism and more is not a difficult place in which to develop what we are seeing developed by Trump right in front of our eyes as we jockey to be a part of his government. As immigrants of color are being moved out of this country, white immigrants preferably from places like White Afrikaner South Africa are being brought in with their citizenship papers practically meeting them as they cross the border.

As they come in, Trump is readying this country to receive them and to help him move along with his programs to get rid of African Americans who have struggled against racism and made their way to top positions. He is also setting up concentration camps in the ugliest of places where the people in them will not be treated as well as the Germans of Hitler’s day were treated. His Alligator Alcatraz is a prime example of what he is developing and the horrendous conditions in which people of color – today mostly Latina’s, but increasingly others of color including United States citizens and United States veterans.

May God open your eyes – unplug your ears – clear your mind so you can see what is happening in these United States and may God give you the courage and intellect to act on what you have to do so this does not come into being as Trump has pictured it to be.

May his family look at their father and see who he really is and may they have the ability to help change and stop the flow of what is happening before it is so moved ahead there will be years before any moving back to a country where the people see their mistakes, regret their misteps and ask forgiveness for the enormous sins they are currently committing. And please, let us not blame Stephen Miller for what is happening. He works for Donald Trump, he is not president of these United States.