HOW TO BECOME A TOTAL FAILURE

This morning I learned the results of Prudential Financial’s stockholder meeting. The stockholders did not accept the board’s recommendation to let the executives decide their own compensation without stockholder supervision. The Say on Pay resolution passed with 61.5% of the vote. Much of the praise belongs to Executive Wealth an organization that is working diligently […]

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My little blog last time about Prudential Financial showed up in Google’s top four. That’s good news and that’s bad. The good news is that the corporate executive cancer of greed gets a better chance of being exposed, but the bad news is that not enough people are writing about it. If my teeny-tiny voice […]

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This isn’t news to anyone that the latest changes in the bankruptcy laws have made it tougher to declare bankruptcy and get protection under the law. Who benefits from these changes? The banks and other financial organizations. I maintain that this is just another way for the banks to duck responsibility for their actions, and […]

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Republictarian–is a word I read today describing someone’s political belief structure. I think that has a good sound to it, don’t you? The republican part works for me because I believe in the republican ideals, although the party hasn’t done a very good job honoring those ideals. The party of less government, less taxes, and more […]

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I am a proud member of Toastmaster’s International. For those unfamiliar with the group I can say unequivocally that we don’t make toast and we aren’t raising our glasses and toasting throughout our meetings. We save that for special occasions, like my club’s Christmas party, where we incorporated a toasting challenge as part of the […]

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I have something to say that is a difficult pill to swallow. We all have great hopes that the new blood in the White House will save us from ourselves. It is easy to blame the past administration for the troubles we now face. It is easy to blame Bush for all of our ills […]

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