Tales of You're Local Friendly Neighborhood Genius

I grew up in New Jersey, went to school here, and felt really insignificant. I grew up in a house full of geniuses. Who may be opinionated and rude. And I found out that I was a genius when I was about to graduate from college. If I had known, I might have studied economics instead of communications as a major. But at least I can read people pretty good.

Anyway, I was talking to my father who can go off on tangents. But he's a really good guy. We were discusing economic policies in 2002. He said he talked to an economist who said the three main wealth builders were mining, farming and manufacturing. All things Americans are outsourcing. Figures. Why else did Carnegie get crazy rich.

So I surmised that tax incentives would help spur economic growth for companies who complied with OSHA and environmental controls in America. Because God knows they just spew waste into the ocean in other countries. And the child labor and enslavement to boot.
So when I was introduced to politicians like Tome Kean Jr. And the like, I discussed this economic policy idea with them. At the time, there was a minor recession and they were quite receptive to it. Now I don't know if they were just Bsing me or what, but I later emailed a few local senators and the President saying these people all agreed about the tax incentives for businesses who complied with OSHA and environmental conrols. And all of a sudden, in 2003 there were tax incentives across the board. Now that wasn't quite what I was pushing for and I certainly don't know if I was the cause of it. But we saw unprecedented growth in the last couple of years.

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