Negligence on a massive scale

"Once our leaders understood they could get rich from marijuana, marijuana became ubiquitous. If you want to put America first, you've got to put its families first!"

The opening monolog by Tucker Carlson is superb! He informs us how Romney became rich at Bain Capital.

Making the world safe for banking, while simultaneously prosecuting ever more foreign wars. Here in the U.S. and in many other countries, voters are revolting against leaders who refuse to improve their lives.

What if happiness were the goal for America? What would be the ingredients? Dignity, purpose, self-control, independence, and above all, deep relationships with other people.

Culture and economics are inseparably intertwined.

In many ways, rural America now looks like Detroit.

Is marriage now a luxury only the affluent can afford? Both parties are ignoring the crisis in marriage, first in the inner cities, now in rural America which was so hard hit by the loss of good paying jobs.

Is our country fair? Cohesive? Can anyone make a decent living outside of the big cities? Does our country actually care about families? Should we worship market capitalism?

I could see Tucker Carlson running for President! I would like to read his book that is currently on the best seller list.

Does it pay to be a jerk?

Donald Hambrick, a Management professor at Penn State....“to the extent that innovation and risk taking are in short supply in the corporate world”—an assertion few would contest—“narcissists are the ones who are going to step up to the plate.” Hambrick says that to Jerry Useem, who writes in The Atlantic about Why It Pays to be a Jerk.



Useem concludes,

So here’s what we know works.

Smile at the customer. Take the initiative. Tweak a few rules. Steal cookies for your colleagues. Don’t puncture the impression that you know what you’re doing. Let the other person fill the silence. Get comfortable with discomfort. Don’t privilege your own feelings. Ask who you’re really protecting. Be tough and humane. Challenge ideas, not the people who hold them. Don’t be a slave to type. And above all, don’t affix nasty, scatological labels to people.