overwhelm the opponent with joy and enlightenment

ABOUT ME Hello, I have a BS in public policy economics, a BS in English Writing, and will complete my MS in Social Science hopefully this Fall. I am a nontraditional student who dropped out of high school in the ninth grade and came back to be valedictorian of my community college and a master's level social researcher. I care about solving problems case by case, starting with the worst cases first, using actual evidence rather than ideological, cookie-cutter based prescriptions like the Child Left Behind act or the Great Wall of Texas.

HOBBIES Market analysis, macroeconomic forecasting, reading about macroeconomics, analyzing real estate markets, graphic design, trying to get honest people elected, playing in punk rock bands and drinking beer with my homeboys, camping fishing outdoors, world travel, expensive wines, diamonds, my yacht, running global multinational corporations (into the ground!), using mainstream economic and political science to argue for policy solutions that redistribute wealth and justice, using beurocracy to take over the world one form at a time

INTERESTS resisting advertising writing about how neocons cherry pick Adam Smith and present a fraction of what his book was about starting a band again actualizing my truth toward what I think is a better world, but really creating tangible results survival constant learning economics, efficiency the public welfare undermining people who use seductive ideologies to justify personal aggrandizement using the system to improve the system revealing obvious contradictions in self-interested ideology Just consider me the anti-Sizemore.

I Listen To My conscience. Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, FDR, Jesus, Ghandi, Steinbeck, regular people I meet on the street, experts, my professors, my elders, Woody Guthrie, Herman Daly, my political candidate friends, F. Buckminster Fuller, sometimes Lyndon B. Johnson, John Lennon, Guitar Wolf, Flaming Lips, the Misfits, Ween, Stereolab, indy rock acts like unsigned less well known bands, Leonard Cohen, Ross Perot, my brother, the voice of reason

Unusual Talents rural development

I Read Investors' Business Daily; The Wall Street Journal; the Federal Register; economics; poetry; the Classics; Wealth of Nations; modern authors barred from the canon because of minority characteristics; real estate reports from other countries for my job; "Route 66: the Mother Road," Robert Solow, Harold Hotelling, Ronald Coase, Herman Daly, Amartya Sen, Milton Friedman, Thorstein Veblen, Vilifredo Pareto, Lord Edgeworth, Lord Keynes, Sir John Hicks, Leon Walras, J.S. Mill, Ricardo, and a few others. Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. Bucky Fuller.

I Watch the dow jones fall through the floor

Skills I Have quiet, humble persistence

Places I've Lived America

BOOKS The Grapes of Wrath The Wealth of Nations Crime & Punishment The Dictionary bell hooks Where We Stand Herman Daly Laurence Sterne Don Quixote Voltaire's Candide Ulysses The Odyssey

MUSIC So, my interests lie in removing the rhetoric and getting down to business building a better life for the individuals who need the most assistance, those who consume the tax revenue with unwanted, unanticipated subsidy like preventable emergency public health cost, corrections instead of prevention, bandaids instead of treatment. For example: public education creates tax payers instead of tax consumers. Subsidizing public education is a public investment, not a tax burden. Likewise public health: lets stop clouding the reality with rhetoric

MOVIES My problem is not with subsidies--I'm a working, trained Post-Keynesian economist and I believe government spending is what got us out of the first depression (until WWII)--my issue is with the terminology conservatives use to frame the economic debate, which is incorrect: they say "free market principles" but provide all kinds of subsidies like streets, police, infrastructure etc. Or, "free trade," when what we really practice is "strategic trade": Free trade would mean no subsidy for energy exploration, no capital gains tax breaks, etc etc.

Best Day of My Life When Bush admitted he was a Socialist and proposed the Bailout. When Sizemore went to prison. Nahh, when I decided to think for myself rather than do what I was told, that was the day. Nearly winning my first election against a strong incumbent, thanks for that. Camping. Playing rock shows. Working for peace and equality.

Why to Be my Friend Honesty, no ties to business or special interest, no desire to fund pork projects but rather a desire to fix social problems rather than route resources to my backers; a willingness to sacrifice my own gain for a larger return on investment in society; a willingness to talk about evidence rather than making decisions from preordained ideological party lines, sincerity, a body of social experience coming from the groups many others make decisions about, who are usually left out of the discussion and have things done to or for them, rather than by them

Causes & Charities the public well being over individual gain; equal market power; higher education; equal access to government and resources; anti-trust regulation; public oversight of the marketplace; public resource preservation; innovation and development rather than unbalanced growth; economic diversity rather than smokestack chasing (cluster economics); economic development through social investment in the individual; Tom Brokaw's campaign to end the "war (to provide) on Drugs," constitutional law; no liars bombing other countries with our childrens' money

Places I Eat the table, the couch, in the living room

Best Advice Given Be clear. Question the rhetoric. Analyze your opponent's argument instead of reacting. Don't take money from Sizemore-types. Don't take gifts. Be sincere. Be true to yourself. Speak your conscience. Speak truth to power. Be ready to pay the price for standing up for justice and my truth.

Dream Come True a place where no one is attacked, where those who want to improve themselves can, where no one has the ability to exercise power over any other, where there is no preferential treatment or elitism, no prejudice, and where executive salaries are only ten times line workers' earnings instead of 800 times more. One first world for all our relations. No vice president's sons promoted to cushy positions because of who they know. No rightwing fanatics running up the public debt so we have to cut services and subcontract to the private sector. Agreement by discussion, not force or power

Brief Bio / Overview Dropped out of school in the ninth grade because of difficulty accepting social contradictions like the sale of tobacco and alcohol while milder poisons were illegal; the wealthy controlling government because the workers can't afford to take the time off, etc; traveled around the country and world for 15 years went back to school at 30 went to the head of my class, won all the prizes got two degrees, econ and english finishing my masters thesis in resource management that's the legend

Things I Enjoy peace, social justice, honesty, clarity, evidence, data, debate, transparency, public welfare, development, education, equal market power and access to resources, Sizemore going to prison, democracy, public resources managed to prevent individual profit imbalance; the woods; Pabst

Hobbies I Have work

Pet Peeves distorting public policy so you can siphon off resources to your supporters and special interest

Place I've Traveled the northern hemisphere in the western hemisphere 49 US states

Favorite People FDR, Paul Wellstone, Gandhi, Jesus, Socrates, Martin Luther, Bucky Fuller, MLK, in no order, but there is something good in everyone even if they can't find it themselves

Things I Need social and economic justice, equal representation, public resource security, US to stop bombing other countries, a second War on Poverty and Great Society, an end to hate and xenophobia; an end to market power, a seat at the table for the uninvited, an end to elitism, for US domestic trade policy to extend to all US countries doing business anywhere in the world; general credit card amnesty, an end to criminalized marijuana while alcohol and tobacco kill millions of teenagers every year; honesty, purity, peace and prosperity; goodwill; brotherly love, i.e. a miracle