Category Archives: Economics

Life is NOT a Zero Sum Game – Part I

If this is your first visit to the blog, please see the Welcome above. The following is from my draft book, The Next Golden Age of America – We Can Give our Grandchildren a Better World. In Stephen Covey’s 7 … Continue reading

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No Representation Without Taxation

If this is your first visit to the website, please see the Welcome above. We all know that our country was started on the battle cry, “No taxation without representation.” Initially the reverse was true also, “No representation (voting) without … Continue reading

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The Immigration Mess: Another Example

If this is your first visit to the website, please see Welcome above. Sunday’s local paper, The Tri-City Herald, included an article about Juan Perez, a Hispanic American Marine (eight years of service, two deployments to Iraq) who married Diana … Continue reading

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Entitlements – Part 1, The Bad Check We Wrote to Ourselves

If this is your first visit to the site, please see the Welcome above. Entitlements are not something Congress has done for us (or to us) nor something that they owe us. “Entitlements” are a post-dated check we have written to … Continue reading

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We Are More Alike Than Different

If this is your first visit to the website, please see the Welcome above. With the U.S. Presidential campaign (along with all the lesser ones) starting in earnest, we can expect the various candidates to tell us how different they … Continue reading

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Becoming an American Community

If this is your first visit to the website, please see Welcome, above. Dr. James Allen, psychologist and family councilor, delivers a presentation titled, “The Community of We and the Tyranny of Me.”  Its basic theme is that America as … Continue reading

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The Occupy Movement and the Tea Party not so Different

If this is you first visit to the website, please check out the Welcome above. The media continues to report that the Occupy Movement “lacks focus”; “their message isn’t concise”; “it’s not clear to the American people”.  I think this … Continue reading

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Longshoremen Hooliganism Hurts All Unions

The September 9, Wall Street Journal included the article, Union Fight  Closes Two Pacific Ports.   The ILWU resorted to old school hooliganism when they lost the court battle to represent the workers at a new facility in Longview, WA. (the … Continue reading

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Some Blog Sites Worth Visiting

If it’s your first visit to this site, please see Welcome above. In trying to follow some Samual Johnson wisdom, “Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.” I was checking out some other websites.  I found three … Continue reading

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More Reasons for Optimism

Here are two sets of (relatively) young people who are already making the world a better place.  The first are returning veterans of the Mideast wars, and the second are college entrepreneurs.  These people are not waiting for someone to … Continue reading

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