What Is Worth

What is Worth

While we were attempting to buy a somewhat indulgent piece of stereo
equipment, the electronics salesman told me what I have come to find
out is a somewhat famous obiter dictum that says, Bankers who must
prove they have credit have already lost it. It's loosely held, he went
on gingerly, because in fact many banks are in furious activity to
prove their worth. It's what their worth is. Only when the prosecution
is upon them do they become aware that they effectively have no credit
whatsoever and never did. Luckily this comment reminded me, not
immediately of myself, which was surely intended, but of the meeting
between the mayor of Televiv and the Prime Minister of Belgium in
reference to the prosecution of Ariel Sharon by the Belgians. When the
Belgian Prime Minister, Verhofstadt, joked that the prisons in Belgium
are getting better, the Mayor, in distinct alliance with the Israeli
Prime Minister, replied, Go to hell! After this thought I said the same
to the electronics salesman and left the store.