Political Economics Understood: A Voter Understanding of Lies and Tricks of Politicians - Couverture souple

Bird, A.B. Thomas E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1466923024 ISBN 13 : 9781466923027

Editeur : Trafford, 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This is a book intended to help the average voter sort out the constant stream of misinformation and rhetoric emanating from political candidates, media, talking heads, and talk shows in order that they can formulate their own strategies about what's best for our country and intelligently exercise their most precious asset to support those who agree with their position, their vote. What is suggested here is nonpolitical in terms of party or ideology and does not argue whether any economic theory offers the correct solution. It is concerned with the economic condition of the country and what political policies best impact the economy, but does not support any party or radical group and the ideologies they promote to accomplish their solutions. Although a long-term member of the Republican Party, I claim no current party affiliation. This book offers methods of determining how political entities use tools designed to mask their true intent and gain the voters support. This is accomplished by identifying tactics used by parties, talking heads, and politicians to achieve their ends and by giving some basic economic training and review techniques to assist the voter in finding the factual information necessary to rebut the constant flow of rhetoric and fallacy with which they, the voter, are constantly bombarded. Conversations with friends, family, and business colleagues have convinced me that because we are continuously subjected to this rhetorical bombardment by all these groups, we are confused. This confusion was clearly demonstrated by the November 2010 elections where, as a nation, we voted for individuals running on policies that will most likely make our major problems of GDP growth, unemployment, and deficit spending much worse. The worst part is the Tea Party and others told us they were going to cut social benefit programs but wrapped it up in a rhetorical blanket of fear: "We're going bankrupt, but we'll s

Biographie de l'auteur :

Mr. Bird has served as president/CEO and as a management consultant in both large and small high-tech companies and has combined teaching with his consulting work since 1994. He has worked with small entrepreneurial start-ups as a pro-bono counselor and advisor as chapter chair of SCORE and taught business and economics at the University of California and at the University of Phoenix. He earned his AB and master's in business administration degrees from UCLA and has been active in community theater as an actor. He holds a commercial pilot's license with an instrument rating and currently resides in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Pat.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Trafford
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1466923024
• ISBN 13: 9781466923027
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152