I have never been a member of NOW (National Organization for Women), the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States.[1] Nor did I ever champion the Women’s Liberation Movement in the sixties and seventies when I was young and starting a career. I guess that I have always embraced people’s rights instead. After [...]

I work in a job where I get to deal one on one with people. It gives me a great perspective on where our nation’s thinking is today. From my unique position I have come to the realization that people have changed dramatically since I first started my customer-oriented job. One particular situation occurred the [...]

There are essentially two ways the federal government spends our money  — Mandatory spending and Discretionary spending. Think in terms of a business.  In every business there are fixed expenses (e.g. building lease) and variable expenses (e.g. cost of goods).  Consider the government’s fixed expenses “mandatory” and the variable expenses “discretionary.” Mandatory programs are payments [...]

One of the negative aspects of aging is a sense of loss – loss of muscle tone, loss of memory, loss of hearing, etc. So, I thought that I hadn’t heard the news anchor correctly when he talked about a government program that gave away free cell phones – not only one, but sometimes several. [...]

On May 17, and again on May 18, 2012, Vice President Joe Biden went on a rant claiming, “They don’t get us! They don’t get who we are!” He claimed “they,” meaning the Republican Party, doesn’t get “us” poor and middle class people. His comments were a baiting of class envy, inciting the average American [...]

“A problem ignored is a disaster invited.” This was a quote I saw on a bulletin board in a building where I once worked. Ironically, it was there during a time when management was refusing to address an escalating problem looming under their noses. The facts and issues had been repeatedly presented to them by [...]