Wednesday, January 02, 2013

The Perfect NCUA Board....



GET ON BOARD !!

The new year 2013 offers an exceptional opportunity for the credit union movement to achieve significant positive change at the NCUA.  

Why?  Because two NCUA Board seats will become vacant.  We all should demand that these important positions be filled with knowledgeable, experienced, and independent critical leaders.  It's for the good of all - including NCUA - if credibility is to be restored.

With tens of millions of U.S. consumers invested in credit unions, as member-owners, and with $1+ trillion of their hard-earned life savings at stake; 2013 provides the opportunity for positive change, a new direction.  We can not and should not accept "also rans" or  "somebody's distant second choice" for these important  positions.  Or else we will, de facto, acknowledge the age old slander of our adversaries that credit unions are little more than "also rans", "somebody's distant second choice."


Wishful thinking you say.  You're living in "La-La land"; our leadership does not appear to have the requisite "X-mas ornaments" to make such a bold stand!

Well, maybe so, but we can dream of a fairytale ending, can't we?  In my view that ideal, fairytale NCUA Board would be....





.... THE THREE LITTLE BAIRS !!!!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good thinking, Jim. We would be fortunate to have Sheila's proven outstanding leadership at NCUA. But since there's only one Sheila Bair, and since only one NCUA Board member can come from the CU system, we also need to have a CU leader and critical thinker appointed--and because of the NCUA Board political party composition requirements, that person should be a Democrat and have solid Dem support. I nominate Gary Oakland.

Jim Blaine said...

Would definitely agree...but also too good to be true???

Dave Chatfield said...

Maybe so--but we're in storybook land here, right?

Jim Blaine said...

Well, better than "Billy Goats Gruff".....