"When President Trump waived the ethics rules for his White House staff, I had to reexamine my own thoughts on what I think ethics are.
In my past as a business person, I served on an ethics committee and a professional standards committee. As a Republican, I chaired a political action committee for the Greater Pueblo Chamber of Commerce (before Rod Slyhoff was director). And again as a businessman, I was the Southern Colorado coordinator for the Better Business Bureau. Could my understanding of ethics be so wrong?
To clear up any confusion on my part, I sought an answer from Merriam Webster, to wit: "The discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation".
Nope, it is just what I thought it was. Evidently, we don't need no stinkin' ethics in the White House.
Tom Carpenter
Pueblo"
