Truthtellers
Truthtellers is the part of GoAmericaProject where you can read the blogs of people with a vested interest in communicating the truths of todays social and political scene. Opinions, data, recommendations...everything will be brought to bear on our modern concerns by these, our select Truthtellers.
Most Americans love the idea of “bigness.” Bigness alone seems to have its own virtue. Idiosyncratically, we will drive out of our way to see the world’s largest ball of twine or the tallest building or the most mammoth stadium. More significantly, we strive to have the largest banks, the biggest car companies, the greatest oil companies and most extensive retail chains. We are impressed by size. |
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Big wants to get bigger. In the private marketplace, the mechanism works only so long as a business continues to compete and run its concern profitably. (Except, of course, when government declares otherwise) When it doesn’t, big doesn’t get bigger. In some cases it shrinks, implodes, even disappears. Unfortunate for the management, employees, shareholders and remaining customers, yet generally good for everyone else. Government, however, doesn’t play by market rules. Especially when it’s in the hands of those who believe” big” government is a benevolent force for good. They see the market as messy and unfair, a very frightening place. People and things fail there. Bad |
For the first time in American history, most parents believe that their children will face tougher times than they did. Most Americans believe that the achievability of the American Dream is fading out of reach. To most Americans this is stunning and alarming. It is their greatest concern. Unfortunately the economic data supports these fears. There are things that can be done to address these concerns and restore belief in the American Dream, but first the dimensions of the problem need to be understood. Though they are important factors, the current global economic mess, the growth of the competitive threat from Asian economies, and our trillion dollar deficits and looming national debt, are not the biggest |
Many people already are aware of the historic irony in the idea that the Nobel Prize system was established by the inventor of dynamite, especially the Nobel Peace Prize. Not many of those savvy folk know the entire story, however. Nobel was moved to establish the Nobel Prize system when an obituary was wrongly published reporting his death (obviously prematurely). The obituary went to great lengths to villify and denounce Nobel for having been the inventor of one of the single most potent and deadly of creations--TNT--and all the death and suffering it (and he by association) had brought into the world. Nobel was so struck by the vitriol of the report, including its label of him as "the merchant of |
My dad is a bass fisherman. A really classic Joe American type, Johnson motors bass-fishing boat, fish-finder, the works. He can affix a lure in his sleep. And growing up, virtually every good-weather weekend in Ohio, I'd be out there with him at Hoover Reservoir, or Alum Creek, dropping the line and taking whatever we could catch. I bring this up not because of its homey associations for a lot of folks, but because in fishing, you have to appreciate a very simple principle: small does not mean unimportant, and in fact it is the majority that is made up of the seemingly insignificant that in fact supports the entire ecological structure that makes those "big catches" even possible, let alone |
