Sharing Thoughts and Ideas - 2019 and newer

Issues We need to  Be Not Afraid  to tackle the tough issues. Some of the critical issues that need to be addressed, and my positions on them, are listed below. We must address these tough issues, otherwise your and my kids and grandkids will bear the burden. In good conscience, we cannot let that happen! But, first let me set out how I approach issues. I follow the facts, sometimes to where I would rather not go, but go there I do if the facts are compelling. Free Market Economics: Problems and Solutions , May 7, 2019. Capitalism has enabled more people to escape poverty than any other economic system. Socialism and communism have proven to be failures. But capitalism is not perfect and sometimes “market failures” require government action to maximize the public good. Am I a Libertarian? , June 29, 2019. Protecting individual liberties is always a great place to start in considering any government policy. I have pledged to uphold our U.S. Const...

I mentor a young man in another country. We use Facebook Messenger a lot for free communication across borders on the other side of the world. I perceive he has a problem that I suspect might well be also negatively impacting our youth who instant message almost constantly. I have a theory that his using Facebook Messenger so much and communicating with many people, that he loses track of things he needs to do simply due to being distracted. Messenger is very inefficient in terms of time use. It is also very bad for keeping track of things, as messages get lost in the long strings of messages. Messages are usually short and devoid of much information. Also, information is so fragmented that it is hard to see where a complete thought or plan is. That is why I want to move communication between him and me more to e-mail (and to using Google Tasks for a To Do list). There, a more robust explanation can be given or a more complete description written. This is hard to do in any leng...