Purpose:

To give America's future a better chance to succeed than our forefathers gave our parents and our parents gave us.

Greensboro CPA CPE

"What Could Happen After What May Happen Next"

September 21, 2010

8:30am to 4:15pm

Drury Inn & Suites,

Greensboro, NC

$100, 8 Hour CPA CPE

"What Could Happen After What May Happen Next"

September 9, 2010

8:15am to 4:30pm

Days Inn, Raleigh-Airport

Research Triangle Park 1000 Airport Drive Morrisville, NC

$100, 8 Hour CPA CPE

"What Could Happen
After What May Happen Next"

September 2, 2010

8:15am to 4:30pm

Drury Inn & Suites,

415 W. T Harris Boulevard
Charlotte, NC

Are using rewards credit cards akin to stealing from poor people?

Credit card fees transfer wealth to rich

Credit card fees and rewards programs exacerbate income inequality
by acting as a transfer of wealth from poor to rich,
according to a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston study released Monday.

…Merchants usually don’t charge different prices for card users to recover the costs of fees and rewards, but instead, mark up [...]

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Geo-Politics and business is Zugzwang

Zugzwang…describes a situation where one player is put at a disadvantage because he has to make a move – the player would prefer to pass and make no move. The fact that the player must make a move means that his position will be significantly weaker than the hypothetical one in which it [...]

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If there were far fewer illegal immigrants during the economic turmoil of the 1970’s, should there be more or less anti-immigrant friction as economic volatility and unemployment increases?

Illegal Workers Swept From Jobs in ‘Silent Raids’
 
The Obama administration has replaced immigration raids at factories and farms …with sending federal agents to scour companies’ records for illegal immigrant workers.
 
While the sweeps of the past commonly led to the deportation of such workers, the “silent raids,” as employers call the audits, usually result [...]

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What is a Kleptocracy?

…while stimulus may have helped avert crisis, the process made clear that crony capitalism is alive and well.

…more stratified, more complex societies are in essence Kleptocracies, where those in power re-distribute societal wealth to themselves. Those at the bottom of the society’s pyramid accept this unequal, non-egalitarian state of affairs because they too benefit from [...]

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Dylan Ratigan on Crony Capitalism

…As Americans, I believe we reject Communism because it historically has allowed a tiny group of people to consolidate complete control over national resources (including people), in the process stifling competition, freedom and choice.

 …a culture of exploitation and a small powerbase formed by cronyism and nepotism are the hallmarks of a communist system that steals [...]

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Lawrence Lessing on Systemic Denial at the Roosevelt Institute’s

Systemic Denial

…things are actually much worse than anyone ever talks about. The pivot points of our financial system — the infrastructure that lets free markets produce real wealth — have become profoundly corrupted. Balance sheets are “fictions,” as Professor Frank Partnoy put it. Trillions of dollars in liability hide behind these fictions. And… practically every [...]

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Does America’s healthcare industry maintain high profit margins by providing superior care and/or medicine, or by financing the political process with profits provided by patients?

You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment
in length, in weight or in measure.

Leviticus 19:35

Premiums jump 14 percent on Medicare private plans

Millions of seniors who signed up for popular private health plans through Medicare are facing sharp premium increases this year…

…premiums for Medicare Advantage plans offering medical and prescription drug coverage jumped [...]

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Conflict of Interest Ethics Rule Proposals for Greensboro City Council members and Guilford County Commissioners

Candidates and current Greensboro City Council members and Guilford County Commissioners should be prohibited from entering into for-profit enterprises dependent upon public support.

Candidates and current Greensboro City Council members and Guilford County Commissioners should be prohibited from making campaign contributions to entities who publicly endorse political candidates.

Candidates and current Greensboro City Council members and Guilford [...]

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If Deena Hayes has a non-race related conflict of interest issue relative to the Downtown Hotel Project, why would the Undoing Racism Group White Caucus ask her to circulate racially oriented talking points?

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored

 

Aldous Huxley

 

Talking points to rebut criticism of hotel

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If Bridget Chisholm has years of experience in municipal finance…?

Half the work that is done in this world

is to make things appear what they are not.

 

Elias Root Beadle

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