Merry Christmas: What Christmas Reindeer Antlers Say About America
I first wrote this in 2010 and I’m considering making it my annual Christmas post. I republished it in 2017 as a response to a study I read: Study: American Kids …
FairTax 101: Making America Great Again
President Trump recently floated the idea of eliminating the federal income tax. That tax became a fixture in 1913 when Congress ratified the 16th Amendment. The first U.S. Tax Code …
DEMOCRATS vs ENTREPRENEURS – Cutting Society’s Oxygen
The selfish left’s tired exhibitions of envy and clamourings for violence manifest an exasperating ignorance of human nature and the reality of America’s underpinnings, which have shaped the Nation’s success.
Redux: What Christmas Reindeer Antlers Say About America
I rarely do this… OK, I never do this, but there’s a first time for everything. I’m going to recycle a post. This one is from 2010, and the reason …
Freedom & Fortune… The Spoiled American Voters of 2016 Squander Their Inheritance
In the segment of the financial planning industry that caters to the uber wealthy, the rule of thumb is that by the 2nd generation 70% of family fortunes are lost …
The War on Poverty – $40 Trillion Funding Failure Rather than Facebook or FUBU or Ford
Last year the United States celebrated the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty begun by LBJ in 1964. Over that time the country has spent approximately $40 trillion on …
From Silicon Valley with Love… and Hope for Free Markets
I’ve just returned home to Atlanta from spending a week in Silicon Valley at a program called Founder Institute. Basically FI is a bootcamp for founders of mostly tech startups. …
Of Startups and Meltdowns… Free Market Success vs. Government Failure
I’m an entrepreneur.I’m constantly full of ideas and trying to get businesses started. As I seek to launch my newest endeavor, BrandScanned, I’m trying to get myself involved in the …
The Occupy Wall Streeters should put down their copies of Das Kapital and pick up this year’s Forbes 400 [Reader Post]
Back in 2000 or 2001 I read a piece in Newsweek or TIME that discussed flyers whining that they didn’t have enough storage space in the overhead compartment bins on airplanes. I remember writing a letter to the editor saying that the only reason that people had the luxury of being able to whine about such things was that flying had become so safe that flyers could shift their focus to the more mundane. Then of course September 11th came along and people started focusing on the basic reason planes exist… to get them from point A to point B in one piece.
The Occupy Wall Streeters are just like the people whining about the overhead compartments. These are the people who enjoy the fruits of the capitalist system in which they live – iPhones, Starbucks, Facebook, Twitter, Twinkies, Nikes, ATMs, MSNBC, not to mention adequate food, shelter, and transportation, yet want to destroy that very system.
Legacy: Was Steve Jobs a selfish son of a bitch? [Reader Post]
Steve Jobs passed away earlier this month with an estimated fortune of $8 billion. I have yet to see a single report about one single dollar that he gave away to charity. How is it possible that a person who was lucky enough to be born and grow up in the United States and take advantage of our laws, schools, infrastructure and patent protections could be so selfish? Compare his lack of philanthropic giving with that of other similarly rich types, past and present. Andrew Carnegie gave away virtually his entire fortune, over $350 million dollars during his lifetime – $5 billion in today’s dollars.