Posted by bsanders on Dec 21, 2011

Land of Opportunity or Entitlements

Remember the phrase “Land of Opportunity”?     It’s getting a bashing lately.   Seems the land of the free, home of the braves fundamental belief of opportunity and pursuit of happiness is fading from our grips.   Why is it that our self image and portrayal of self sufficient, sustainable hard working Americans is getting harder to maintain? There is an old expression that defined many...

Posted by bsanders on Dec 18, 2011

Sign of the Time(s)

Posted by bsanders on Dec 8, 2011

Occupy Main Street

Let’s stop building walls and start working toward viable solutions.   Lets start an Occupy Main Street where the cause will be in support of the 100% – of Tax Paying Business owners!     Those small businesses are what make our country work.   If we did that, we would have more workers needed, and thus more jobs would open up… then unemployment would go down! If  the assumption that 1%...

Posted by bsanders on Dec 8, 2011

The Modern Scapegoat: Success

Since its inception, the Occupy crowd “voices of discontent” seemed rather amorphic with concerns about the unemployment, anemic economy, and a litany of other more unique issues.   Polls agree with the general frustration exhibited by the Occupy crowd, as did President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and several others in power.  Although we may agree with the frustration, many in the Occupy crowd keep...

Posted by bsanders on Dec 8, 2011

Occupy Wall Street – Fundamental Change?

As I look across the spectrum of media regarding the Occupy crowd, I am wondering what has become of its original message?   There is now examples of violence and more vehement vocalizations against the “Wall Street” crowd.   In a short time, the Occupy crowd has become more organized, better funded, and word pundits are falling over each other to provide articulate words and meaning behind...