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11.18.2009 6:27 pm

Resenting American ideals

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Emerson CEO David Farr is quoted as saying “I’m not going to hire anybody in the United States.  I’m moving.” Does that mean he is leaving the country? And taking his company with him?  Everyone whose opinion might become a…

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11.12.2009 6:16 pm

CEO’s anti-American comments on Veterans Day are outrageous

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It is appalling to me that on days like today, when we remember our fallen heroes nationwide, people that fought to protect our freedoms and our economic system, we have to hear words like those spoken today at a conference…
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06.08.2009 6:33 pm

Politicians are not business experts

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It begins. In exchange for bailout money, the federal government foolishly demanded 60% ownership of GM, which automatically gives Congress and the President the expertise to run car companies. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Rockefeller said, “I honestly don’t believe…

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12.31.2008 1:50 pm

Consumers are the engine that drives the American economy

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

As children, we learned valuable lessons from fables. One in particular stands out today, the fable about the man who killed the goose that laid golden eggs. It taught us that greed can cause people to destroy that which is…

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12.17.2008 12:39 pm

Workers need the tools to reform the system

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Middle class workers are fighting a steep uphill battle. Today’s system is horribly broken, skewed heavily in favor of big businesses and their super-rich CEOs. As it stands, corporations can effectively veto their employees’ efforts to organize and bargain collectively…

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10.24.2008 6:38 pm

Off with SOX now

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I have been hounding Senators Bond & McCaskill and Congressman Akin for a least a month to make an effort to turn off choking regulations – in particular Sarbanes-Oxley.

Since things are only getting drastically worse since the onset of…

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10.23.2008 2:47 pm

My lunch with John McCain proved he’s got what it takes

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Because I’m a small business owner, Monday I got to sit and have a 40 minute semi-private lunch with Senator John McCain. Senator McCain, four others, and I discussed the systems and the conditions that allow small business to create…

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10.14.2008 1:37 pm

Families are being left out in the cold

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Farmer’s Almanac predicts a long, cold, brutal winter this year.  It seems in keeping with the financial climate. 

 

The presidential candidates have been obtuse in their promises of better times on issues of health care, the financial crisis and unemployment.  Both parties extol their…

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10.14.2008 1:33 pm

Good-old-boys in business have lost sense of fairness, responsibility

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Have all the individuals in powerful positions in big business lost all sense of fairness and responsibility?  It is obvious that the “Good Old Boys & Girls” on big business boards have lost both.  Boards awarding bonuses to failing executives…

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09.23.2008 5:47 pm

Public should get something for the personal liability shield we’re giving business

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It’s high time that we the public get something in exchange for the personal liability shield we grant the owners and management of our corporations. Yes, earnings are taxed and, subsequently, dividends paid are also taxed, but that is not…

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