If you see something, say something. Want to be part of the Solution? I do! I no longer want to be passive and report the news, let’s make the news together? From now on this Blog would like to link to other Bloggers who have something to say. They are the go to people … More PUBLIC ADVOCACY: If you see something, say something.
Dear followers I am torn between what can be and what is ? For years I’ve been writing about Social advocacy, almost 30,000 visitors that I know of, have viewed my site, but I feel I should be doing more? I will continue to deliver all the news and issues and options that concern … More PUBLIC ADVOCACY: a letter to my Readers/A call for action
You can’t make this stuff up: it’s good to ” have friends in high places, they are called ” friends with Benefits”. Obama gives California drought relief after the Bipartisan Bill passed giving farmers Trillions. He stays in Palm Springs where the grass is lush and the folks use about 735 gallons of water a … More PUBLIC ADVOCACY: A “Snarky “. assessment of national and local choices for “those in need”?
I can’t believe they keep asking the same stupid questions on the News. Why isn’t the Middle Class purchasing? Have they all forgotten they wiped out the Middle Class. They have no money. They can’t afford to spend on restaurants no matter how low cost. What doesn’t everyone understand. The Middle Class was the backbone … More PUBLIC ADVOCACY: What happened to the Middle Class?
Boundaries effects us more then you think, when we talk about the revolving door between Washington and Business or Lobbying we are speaking boundaries. With the laws allowing federal employees to become lobbyists we have blurred the boundaries between the two and totally negated ethics in favor of self interest. When Sheila Bair left government … More PUBLIC ADVOCACY: Boundaries are necessary
DEBT. No wonder folks hate debt. We were brought up the same way. Little credit card debt. No money spent unless you had it. Never shopping for the pleasure of shopping. You wanted something you bought it. End discussion. Now the recession has made The Middle Class paupers in mind , spirit and actuality. The … More PUBLIC ADVOCACY: Debt Private & Public
The art of listening carefully. When some people speak, you have to listen. When John Kerry said, Israel will make Peace with The Palestinians or there would be a Third Infatada, he knew ! No, not the rocks and bomb type, but the Monetary kind. Like Thomas Friedman echoed in the NY Times, 2/5/14, European … More PUBLIC ADVOCACY: The art of listening
You can’t make this stuff up. The. NY TIMES (last week) wrote about the following topics of concern : Climate Change and income inequality They are linked. As the major European nations struggle through recession, the targets for Carbon emissions have been met. Unemployed workers use less energy Next we read in the FT 1/24/14. … More PUBLIC ADVOCACY: No more debate, inequality exists, create jobs
As the media diverts our attention once again from job creation and Obama ponders income inequality which his policies have exacerbated. Our attention is diverted by more articles then I can count: climate Change’s effects on Monarch Butterflies, penguins and polar bears; the rush to fracking without a means to transport gas products causing widespread … More PUBLIC ADVOCACY: Fear of risk is holding the Country hostage to ” bad ” policy
1/31/14 The Economist blames the technology for the rise of the top 1% and the decline of the Middle Class. It’s a convenient theory but untrue, up until the Financial Crash, the Middle Class was still prospering, but the schemes perpetrated by the Banking and Insurance Industries, created a real wealth transfer to the top … More PUBLIC ADVOCACY: sweat the small stuff and move forward