You’re Fired!
I have been CEO and founder of a regionally recognized business that built an international client base (multi-million dollar in receipts) as well as a corporate officer in a publicly-held firm. I was...
View ArticleJob Creation and Our Diminished Economic Engine: The Middle Class
Over the past 30 years the vast majority of income gains have gone to the wealthiest in our country. In an economy that is 70% personal consumption, we will continue to experience slow recovery and...
View ArticleWealth and Income Inequality: America’s Moral Crisis
Less than one tenth of one percent of our population is holding a sum of wealth approaching three times the size of the US economy that is anticipated to more than double within the next decade, the...
View ArticleA Request for NC Senator Hagan to Address Moral Issue of Wealth/Income...
I voted for NC Senator Kay Hagan. I consider her a thoughtful individual who has positively acted to support many progressive policies (ref). This past week I issued correspondence to her office...
View ArticleDiscrimination and Job Creation Just Don’t Mix
In defending their tax policies that largely benefit the wealthiest, Republican leadership claims that it is protecting our ‘job creators’. However, Republican legislators certainly paid no heed to...
View ArticleOur Unrepresentative Representation
Introduction The Occupy Wall Street movement has reason to protest. Special interest-driven deregulation policy was at the heart of the recent economic collapse. It has been the “99%” that has paid...
View ArticleThe Common Denominator of Right Wing Policy: Lost Lives
Looking back at my research and writing on conservative special interest-driven policies, a common denominator emerges – without exception. Regardless of the area (opposing reform of our gun markets...
View ArticleJFK on the Press
More than ever, we need a press with ‘abrasive’ qualities, one that fact checks, digs for answers and participates in creating an informed public. I turned on the tube to some ideologically-driven...
View ArticleRepublican Economic Policy: When Facts No Longer Matter
“…there’s remarkable consensus among mainstream economists, including those from the left and right, on most major macroeconomic issues. The debate in Washington about economic policy is phony....
View ArticleThe Year the GOPs Con Game was Exposed
The GOP’s decision to reinstate tax cut policy in 2001 exposed their hand. It was not about deficit reduction, growing the economy, or job creation. It was about ideology and, no doubt, special...
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