{"id":21106,"date":"2017-03-08T11:52:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21106"},"modified":"2017-03-08T12:05:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T17:05:44","slug":"i-am-on-a-data-privacy-kick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21106","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I am on a data privacy kick&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Buddy twitted (as opposed to tweeted) me with this response to my third paragraph in <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21091\">the last post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;9AM [meeting] was strictly personal with a financial advisor. Sorry, Data private.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That an elected official, who purports to be &#8220;liberal&#8221; and &#8220;progressive&#8221;, would say that, puzzles me. Did he mean to implicitly flaunt his wealth, by suggesting that the magnitude of it is such that he needs a financial advisor; or did he inadvertently and implicitly admit that he is not capable of managing his financial affairs by himself?<\/p>\n<p>Your Buddy&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I replied in all good humor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am on a data privacy kick, [Buddy]&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, in all seriousness,let me offer up a more candid answer to my &#8220;eight loyal readers&#8221; (including my &#8220;Buddy&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>I am on a data privacy kick. a real one. In a few minutes I am going to continue reviewing the billing from the Rupp firm. In fact, I wrote up a post and was just about to push the upload button when I realized I wanted to recheck one particular detail to make sure I wasn&#8217;t about to spout some Donald Trump level rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>As to what my readers might conclude by my tease about visiting a financial advisor I&#8217;ll be blunt. I consider myself rich. I&#8217;ve considered myself rich since I was in elementary school even though it could have been said of me I was born with a stainless steel spoon in my mouth. I know people with a lot more money than me who would not consider themselves rich. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, I tell people I married well. I haven&#8217;t dared squander the wealth my better half earned for us both. Had it been up to me I&#8217;d likely have blown it all on futile campaigns for public office. Instead, I had to be creative to be the successful &#8220;perennial candidate&#8221; that the editorial board of the Trib like&#8217;s to poke in the ribs every so often.<\/p>\n<p>As to fiscal management let me say this. My Dad was an attorney. He always told me that anyone in court who acts as his own attorney had a fool for a client. Perhaps the same could be said of someone with a little money acting as his\/her own tax and finance expert.<\/p>\n<p>My comfort is on my mind especially as it contrasts with the poverty of children I have some responsibility for educating as one in seven votes on the Duluth School Board. Last night I attended the meeting at Denfeld which<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/education\/4230926-denfeld-parents-seek-answers-equity-woes\"> was written up in today&#8217;s Trib<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This morning our church men&#8217;s group had Holly Sampson as a guest speaker to talk about the &#8220;opportunity gap&#8221; between poor and rich children. She explained what the Duluth Superior Foundation is doing to help our community<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsacommunityfoundation.com\/opportunity-gap-guidelines\"> bridge that gap<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It is inspired by this book by Robert Putnam who did some of his research in Duluth:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/81uDZO0WWeL.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Buddy,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/noblesse%20oblige\">noblesse oblige<\/a> mode since I was a little kid and heard about the holocaust. I&#8217;ve tried to carry out this mission without too much saccharine, &#8220;nanny state,&#8221; bloviating. I started out trying to do this as a moderate Republican. I know I don&#8217;t always succeed in the platitude department and I sure as Hell failed doing it as a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, I wish I knew a lot more about Donald Trump&#8217;s financial tenticals with Putin and a lot of other rascals around the world. I ran for Congress twice and had to spill my financial beans out to the whole world each time. Trump&#8230;&#8230;Not so much. Do some googling. I&#8217;m sure you could find my old records someplace if you&#8217;re curious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Buddy twitted (as opposed to tweeted) me with this response to my third paragraph in the last post: &#8220;9AM [meeting] was strictly personal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21106"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21113,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions\/21113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}