The Fourth Option (A Centrist Perspective) Blog

It’s “the day” of the year when we compress what should have been our way of life, or the manner in which we treated family, friends – strangers, on every day, before this momentous day we call Thanksgiving.   It should be the day of the year along with the day on which our God was born   that serves as the barometer by which we should evaluate our future lifetime perspectives concerning family, friends, thankfulness, and our actions in accordance with the teaching of our God! There was a time when Americans actually took time to gave thanks, and took time to break bread, and care for family, friends, neighbors – and strangers every day. It felt like we were ascending steadily climbing up on our way to become “ the shinning city on the hill.” Beginning on this Thanksgiving, I hope we make it our goal to start ascending, once again, to “the shinning city on the hill.” by James A. Porter

           I am pretty certain that we’ve all heard the following: “Cutting taxes will create jobs.” Cutting taxes will save the future for our children.” ”Cutting taxes will help small businesses, which create most of the jobs in the United States, to grow and expand.” ”Raising taxes isn’t the answer, because the tax dollars the government will receive from raising taxes isn’t enough to offset government spending, which continues to increasingly spiral out of control.” Although there are other similar perspective, these are these are the main views we perceive when we observe this hologram from “the right.”      Here are some other views that should be observed when you this hologram: 1. Twenty-six states in the United States have republican governors. Most of them – especially the ones that were elected in the 2010 mid-term election, (like Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin), cut corporate taxes; implemented lucrative corp...

          The truth is a hologram: In order to see the complete picture, you must carefully observe it from the right, the left, the center, and several other perspectives. Viewing it from one angle deny you a complete understanding of the other elements that are only shown in the other perspectives. I thought about holograms and the importance of observing them from several angles during the presidential election. Tax cuts, spending cuts, cuts to entitlements, jobs, military spending, education, health care, insurance coverage, social security, and immigration are political holograms that were discussed in the years and months leading up to the November 6, 2012 election. None of these topics, however, received the thorough, deliberate, and careful viewing these important holograms deserve. Tax cuts, which has been the single most dominant economic topic since 1981,was totally ignored by the presidential candidates, the senatorial candidates, ...

           In 1980, President Reagan’s economic aim was to empower corporate America, for he believed that the central key to creating a vibrant economy was greater freedom for the businesses community. They needed, in his judgment, less government restrictions (or greater freedom) to act more confidently and more assertively in all areas of business. Reagan believed he could create this level of empowerment for the business community by reducing the amount of government regulations, reducing the number of workers’ unions, eliminating equal opportunity and civil legal actions, and reducing corporate taxes. He believed these steps would allow corporations to grow, take additional risks, and ultimately investing in the American economy by hiring new American workers. However, Reagan’s belief, in my judgment, had one huge flaw:   President Reagan truly believed that the leaders of American corporations shared his deep love and 100 percent, pa...