America’s wealthy donates more money on an annual basis to help other countries than anyone else. What many don’t understand is that about 20% of the people in the US pay 80% of the taxes. Those 20% paying 80% of the taxes are not all wealthy. Think about that. Being the greatest nation in...
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Americans Need to Pay Attention to What Unites Us, and Finally Resolve What Divides Us
Everything in the United States has become polarized – politics, religion, gender, race, identity. We’re segregated geographically, economically and ideologically among too many lines to count. This is nothing new, and the tension, anger, and resentment that it causes (and that to various degrees has always been there), simmer and sometimes resurface, despite the...
Continue readingA House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
So much in life revolves around attitude. And only we are responsible for our attitudes. The world presents us with situations. But it’s our choice. We choose how we will react to it. No one else makes that choice for us. In a time when so many are certain that our country is divided,...
Continue readingShifting Our Attitude To Shift The World
The longer I live, the more I realize how much impact attitude has on people’s lives. A person’s attitude is more important than education. It’s more important than money, circumstances, failures, successes, appearance or skill. It’s especially more important than what others think, say or do. The attitude of everyone involved will make or...
Continue readingLet’s Preserve Our History With Transparency
Let’s put up large well-lit plaques instead of tearing down our monuments. I know there are monuments that some people would love to tear down because they represent a dark part of America’s past. I understand why some of these monuments might offend certain people, and I am sensitive to their pain. However, to...
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