WELCOME! To the Stapleton Gallery of Folk History and Conversation Home of the FFPP The FREEDOM, FAIRNESS AND PROGRESS PARTY Join now! Heres how! From a passage embarking on page 645 of my book BUSINESS VOYAGES, a business bible, first published in 2008: I am not a Democrat, or a Liberal, and for sure I am not a Republican, or a Conservative. I am a member of the FFPP, my own creation, the Freedom, Fairness, and Progress Party. If you would like to join this party, send no money, but act in such a way as to encourage all people to act in truly free, fair, and progressive ways. Most Democratic congress people seem about as devoid of workable solutions for real problems in today’s world as Reagan and Bush II, although I will say I think Democratic politicians in Washington in general have been more Christian-like than Republican politicians in Washington since 1980. At least they did not take from the poor and give to the rich. Most Republican and Democratic politicians have done little in the last 25 years but slavishly vote for their party line, as they were told by their party bosses, to conserve their chances of getting help from their party bosses in their next election. Vote the rascals out ASAP and replace them with free, fair, responsible, progressive members of the FFPP, who want to do the right thing for all Earthians. Vote in Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, if possible, as President and Vice President of the United States in 2016! And all other progressive independents you can find in 2014 and 2016. The last thing we need now are more brown-nosing ass-kissing career politicians out to feather their own nests and the nests of their sugar daddies ensconced in their corporate headquarters atop skyscrapers and their favored elite rich few by slavishly voting for bills, acts, laws and rules in their favor, at the expense of we the people, in the on-going US class war, exponentially increasing the incomes and wealth of the elite rich from year to year, creating ever-widening inequality, inexorably degrading our democracy from the inside, as climate change threatens it from the outside. Get rid of flat taxes. Large corporations and the elite rich now pay about the same after loophole effective tax rate as the middle class. Reset the top ALETR to above 70 percent where our wisest ancestors set it before 1980, who knew you have to have progressive income tax rates to prevent inequality from destroying society. Use the new tax revenue, borrowed money, and printed money to directly fund infrastructure jobs in green energy, transportation, education and the like to create jobs for the unemployed and underemployed and small businesses, which will cause a multiplier effect to kick in creating even more jobs, restoring a semblance of fairness and progress in our society. For ramifications see Business Voyages: Mental Maps, Scripts, Schemata and Tools for Discovering and Co-Constructing Your Own Business worlds at amazon/Business-Voyages-Schemata-Discovering-Co-Constructing/dp/1413480810/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383756753&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=business+voyages%3A++mental+maps%2C+scripts%2C+etc. What’s the arrow in my Facebook picture got to do with anything? I used a spinning arrow, what I now call The Truther, over 30 years in all my university case method business courses to point out and randomly select the discussion leader of the day, thereby insuring every student in the class had an equal opportunity to be the class leader of the day, thereby teaching democratic leadership skills. Politics are not confined to governments. Do not think there is not irrational politics in academia, pandering for high student evaluations, kissing up to administrators, etc. Here is my best shot at eliminating some of the unfair politics of academia, in my article “Optimizing the Fairness of Student Evaluations: A Study of Correlations Between Instructor Excellence, Study Production, Learning Production and Expected Grades,” published in the Journal of Management Education in 2001, since cited as a reference in 55 refereed professional journal articles, at sagepub/holt/articles/. Scroll about half way down the list of articles in this anthology to find a PDF copy of Optimizing the Fairness of Student Evaluations. The overall political situation in the US started seriously deteriorating in 1981 with the ascension of Ronald Reagan. Neither major party has produced satisfactory results overall for over 30 years. Their members who get elected are generally beholden to rich donors and vote in their favor. They try to get elected over and over. If they cant get reelected they become lobbyists or get jobs with large corporations owing them favors. The best hope is not to vote for incumbents and try to find Independent candidates. If you want to vote party line the best hope is probably the Green Party. Richard John Stapleton Statesboro, Georgia effectivelearning.net September 1, 2014
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 04:22:32 +0000
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