Listening to the Democratic Presidential candidates engaged in friendly debate on Public Radio, they blamed everything from global warming to loss of jobs overseas to Wall Street and Corporate America. Now I’m just a country boy, grown old and moved north, but that assertion seems as destructively naïve as the Republicans support of cartels and monopolies with the attitude that what’s good for big business is good for the economy. Corporations are uniquely Western and are the sole driving force for financing good ideas, good products, productivity and our quality of life. Even if we were an agrarian economy and we all lived on farms, the idea that individual investors can finance the seed-money, the grub-stake, as it were, would be a decided advantage over bank financing and the risk of foreclosure. Wall Street is merely the exchange giving everybody access to the opportunities and companies access to financing through that shared ownership. The problem, it seems to me, rests with anti...
Retired physician and air taxi operator, science writer and part time assistant professor, these editorials cover a wide range of topics. Mostly non political, mostly true, I write more from a lifetime of experience and from research, more science than convention. Subjects cover medicine, Alaska aviation, economics, technology and an occasional book review. Globalization or Democracy documents the historical roots of Oligarchy, the road to colonialism and tyranny