Beste Jim Fini podcasts (2024)

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Episode 53: A Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: former US Rep Chris Collins 44:04

10M ago44:04

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My guest today is American entrepreneur and politician, Christopher Collins. Chris served as the U.S. representative for New York's 27th congressional district (Buffalo NY area) from 2013 until 2019. Prior to his time in Congress, he ran for Erie County Executive in 2007 on a platform of smaller county government, lower taxes and operating efficien…

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Episode 52: Lessons in Preserving American Freedom: An interview with Laz Lopez 28:30

1y ago28:30

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Laz Lopez joins me today to tell his family's story of escaping communist Cuba and achieving the American Dream as a successful business owner in the U.S. In these challenging times, it's just the reminder we need about how precious and tenuous our American freedom really is.Door Jim Fini

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Activism Posing as Journalism: My Love-Hate Relationship with PBS 28:26

1y ago28:26

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Elon Musk recently labeled NPR and PBS as “government-funded media” on Twitter, angering both organizations. Is he right, and does it matter anyway? For many years, I supported PBS and NPR financially. I just loved their music, movies and documentaries and their news and opinion programs, that while left leaning, were conducted in a civil tone. The…

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Episode 50 - MLK is Rolling in His Grave 43:58

1+ y ago43:58

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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.” 63 years ago, a great American, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called out injustice and held America accountable to its constitutional principles. Now there’s…

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Elections 2022: The Threat to Democracy is Real, But It’s Not What You Think. 14:40

1+ y ago14:40

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Inflation and interest rates are inflicting painful damage today. Yet seemingly without notice the national debt is working like a cancer sapping the nation’s long-term economic vitality. Whether we reach the “doom loop,” or just become mired in stagflation, unchecked government spending and mounting national debt will drain all growth potential fr…

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Episode 48 - From a Life of Crime to a Wonderful Life 44:20

1+ y ago44:20

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I was introduced to Larry Lawton through Congressman Bill Posey's office as someone with a compelling story that can help point at-risk kids in the right direction. Man what a story ! Larry was was one of the biggest jewel thieves in American history who ultimately spent 12 years in prison for his crimes. Upon his release in 2007, Larry moved to Fl…

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Episode 47 –America’s Absolute Most Important Priority 37:20

2y ago37:20

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Climate? Guns? Abortion? Equity? Nope. Listen Up for America’s Biggest Issue.Door Jim Fini

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Episode 46 - Memorial Day 16:54

2y ago16:54

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It’s been a month since my last podcast where we spoke with Florida Congressman Bill Posey. I’ve had a lot of family stuff to deal with which I will get to later. But I wanted to get this out by Memorial Day because it is such a powerful transitional holiday, and I am definitely in a transitional point in my life.…

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Episode 45 - with Florida Congressman Bill Posey 46:00

2y ago46:00

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I am so pleased to have as my guest GOP Congressman Bill Posey who represents Florida's 8th Congressional District. He serves on the House Financial Services and Science, Space and Technology committees. Prior to that he served 8 years in the Florida State Senate and 10 years on the Rockledge, FL city council and prior to that, he was the founder o…

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Episode 44 - The New Cold War 34:45

2y ago34:45

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Ultimately, our freedoms and rights power the innovative culture that makes the United States the most successful political experiment in history. Even with its historical warts, America has improved the living standards of its citizens more than any human culture that has ever existed. Democracy, protection of individual freedoms, harnessing the p…

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Episode 43 - with Retired Ukraine Diplomat David Hunter 37:37

2+ y ago37:37

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My guest today was a guest on this podcast about 18 months ago and we talked about how rising geo-political risks threaten the 75-year-old Pax Americana where global domestic product has increased by a factor of 20 times. Well, it appears those risks are now a clear and present danger as Russia has invaded Ukraine. Not only this, but China has also…

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Episode 42 - The Health of our Oceans with Dr. Rikki Neilsen 37:01

2+ y ago37:01

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Dr. Rikki Eriksen is a marine biologist focused on the health of our oceans. She grew up in Florida, living on the water with the amazing marine wildlife. Summers were spent on a sailboat in Denmark with her grandparents and winter school breaks sailing in the Caribbean. As a teenager, she started noticing the marine ecosystem was choking to death …

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Episode 41 - America is only as Good as its Public Schools 37:31

2+ y ago37:31

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The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results. Much of recent American federal government policy seems to fit into this paradigm. Like let’s print a whole lot of money then act surprised when we get inflation. Or stop enforcing our immigration laws and be shocked when millions of foreign people including cr…

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Episode 40 - Rome, China, the United States and the Cycles of History 28:15

2+ y ago28:15

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History repeats and unfortunately, we are on the downhill run of the latest cycle. But remain optimistic because we have a system with a demonstrated track record of success. China has emerged as a powerful rival, but its authoritarian system will remain its Achilles Heel. Stay vigilant and start thinking about what happens after we get through the…

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Episode 39 - on Race in America with Cecil Grant 34:59

3y ago34:59

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Today my guest is Cecil Grant, the host of the new “Changing the Narrative” podcast which you can find on Apple, Pandora and other places. His podcast focuses on issues seen through the lens of a middle-aged African American man who deeply cares about his country and is alarmed by what he sees. He has the moral authority to really challenge bad gov…

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Episode 38 - Time to Wake Up to Rising Geopolitical Risks. Are You Listening Joe? 39:06

3y ago39:06

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The Biden Administration is busy. Very busy. Busy making sure all we hear about is racial politics, the dreaded COVID Delta Variant, climate change, diminishing our election laws, defunding our police, and turning our schools into indoctrination centers. So I guess it's understandable that they have missed the growing threat that our adversaries po…

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Episode 37 - Seeking Middle Ground with Author Andrew Shelley 50:24

3y ago50:24

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Today my guest is Andrew Shelley, author of the book, “American Butterfly”, an excellent exploration of the roots of the American culture wars through the lens of a deep-fried southern fish out of water. We explore Andrew’s transition from a boy born to a conservative southern family to a northern liberal living in Boston and how that has helped hi…

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Episode 36 - Crypto with Stormborn Part 2. 44:58

3y ago44:58

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Just like e-commerce internet companies in the 1990's, most crypto projects won't succeed. However, the ones that do transform our world. In the last decade, Bitcoin and Ethereum emerged as two of those transformers. If you invested $2000 in ETH five years ago, you'd be retired now. This is because the ETH improvement on blockchain architecture is …

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Episode 35 - May You Live in Interesting Times 33:09

3y ago33:09

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The fact is that middle ground in America is to the Right of where we are now, not further Left. The pendulum swings back and forth in politics but a razor thin Democrat majority in the House and an equally divided Senate, is NOT a mandate to discard the Constitution and re-do America as a socialist utopia. At best this is going to continue to alie…

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Episode 34 - Systemic Racism isn’t the Problem. It’s Bad Public Policy. 41:57

3+ y ago41:57

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Anti-discrimination laws have historically targeted a company’s intent but in 2015, a Supreme Court ruling allowed certain types of outcomes to be considered discrimination even if there was no explicit intent to discriminate. This is called disparate impact and we think this is really bad policy. It has the opposite affect of what our government i…

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Episode 33 - Bitcoin and Crypto with Stormborn Partners 51:16

3+ y ago51:16

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For years, really smart people sneered at Tesla and shorted its stock. Over the past 10 years, all Tesla has done is revolutionize the auto industry, deliver an 18,885 percent return for its shareholders, and make Elon Musk either the richest or second richest man in the world, depending on the day. Bitcoin is kind of like Tesla. Here’s what Bill G…

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Episode 32 - Biden's First 2 Weeks: a Common Sense Analysis 54:56

3+ y ago54:56

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Jim brings in his buddies Cecil Grant and Ted Zwijacz to provide an analysis of Biden's unprecedented 50 executive actions from the perspective of "the average Joe American."Door Jim Fini

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Episode 31 - with Charles Marohn of Strong Towns 46:38

3+ y ago46:38

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I published my book, Locally Grown: The Art of Sustainable Government, in October 2019 thinking that I was at the forefront of a movement to restore America’s bottom-up constitutional design and its power to make government more responsive, holistic and sustainable. Silly me. I discovered a couple months ago that Charles Marohn has been turning gra…

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Episode 30 - with Lyn Alden, Economist and Investment Advisor 39:47

3+ y ago39:47

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For those of you who have been listening to my podcast and reading my blogs, you know that I periodically focus on making a stronger more sustainable you, by bringing in interesting, smart guests who can help you make money. Last year I had Whitney Tilson to help you align your investments with the macro-trends he sees in the world. This week I am …

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Episode 29 - What's Next? 36:48

3+ y ago36:48

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Joseph McCarthy was a Republican Senator from Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, he became the public face of anti-Communism in the midst of the Cold War by using his position as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Operations to identify communists, Soviet spies and sympathizers that had infiltrated the U…

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Episode 28 - The Twelve Days of Christmas 18:16

3+ y ago18:16

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Christmas is a joyous time that calls us all to be grateful, enjoy family, and think about others. But there is also no denying the fact that Jesus was a revolutionary who was unafraid to speak truth to power. He had the ultimate skin in the game and that is what all of us need to do more of. Get out of our comfort zones, help our fellow man, speak…

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Episode 27 - Civil Disobedience 37:43

3+ y ago37:43

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Protests are a form of protected free speech that is vital to our nation. Our founding documents were designed specifically to protect us from government over reach and tyranny and ultimately recognized the power and duty of the people to resist that government when it fails us. In his timeless essay "Civil Disobedience", American philosopher Henry…

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Episode 26 - What Happened to Free Speech on College Campuses? 18:09

3+ y ago18:09

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More than 23% of our population is within the education bureaucracy. If that bureaucracy is becoming less tolerant of free speech, how can we expect the adults that emerge from that system to be tolerant of free speech? As time goes by, it will feel increasingly normal for those adults to become intolerant of speech they don’t agree with, and that …

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Episode 25 - with Election Supervisor Leslie Swann 54:16

3+ y ago54:16

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Those of you who have been listening to me for a while, know that I am a big proponent of de-centralized power. My book, Locally Grown: The Art of Sustainable Government, is all about that. The Constitution enshrines this decentralized power model by giving most power to the states and the people, though we have strayed frighteningly far from that …

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Episode 24 - a Brave New World 22:00

3+ y ago22:00

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Well, here we are! It looks like a narrow contested Biden victory. We have three tumultuous months until the “swearing in” on January 20th 2021. What have we learned ? That, we are still a sharply divided nation that has voted for divided government. Feels like Americans are looking for middle ground, not radical change. We have also learned that a…

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Episode 23 - Raising up Disadvantaged Kids with Crossover Mission 40:09

3+ y ago40:09

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A few years ago when my son was looking for a summer league basketball team to join, he came across a local AAU team that was really outstanding. He wondered if he was good enough even to make the team. When he inquired, he was introduced to Coach Antoine Jennings who gave him the low down on the requirements for joining his crew. It wasn’t like ot…

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Episode 22 - with Reverend David Johnson 39:57

3+ y ago39:57

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I have always found it ironic how spirituality is usually low on the list of priorities when times are good but when times become difficult, people turn to God for hope and solace. Who hasn’t said a prayer when something bad happens that goes something like this? “Dear God, if you just help me get through this, I promise be a better person.” Or som…

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Episode 21 - The Politics of COVID 20:53

3+ y ago20:53

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In April of this year, I wrote a blog post entitled “Coronapocalypse.” Back then, I suspected that the Corona virus pandemic was overblown reasoning that politicians, scientists and the media didn’t have enough data and were being super cautious with policy. Six months later, the data indicate that the pandemic is definitely overblown but the reaso…

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Episode 20 - with Baggett and Bailey 1:01:14

3+ y ago1:01:14

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This one is an exciting deep dive into the future of work, the raging Cyberwar, Big Tech friend or foe and game planning for the outcome of the 2020 election. Join me as I dig in with two really smart and successful guys. Serial tech entrepreneur Dave Baggett and S&P 500 C-suite executive and Lockheed Martin board member, George Bailey.…

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Episode 19 - with Whitney Tilson and Guests 52:36

3+ y ago52:36

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As promised, I had Whitney back to talk about a mutual passion we have: Public Education Reform. But before we get to that, we talk about what the betting odds are for the November 3 elections and how to plan your investments for that outcome. Jim and Whitney are joined in a lively Q& A, by seven of Jim’s subscribers, that includes sales and financ…

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Episode 18 - The Notorious RBG, American Icon 21:34

4y ago21:34

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In this epic time in our history when the country seems so divided, we all need to take a deep breath and recognize a great American life. She was born Ruth Bader in Brooklyn, NY in 1933 of a Russian Jewish emigrant father and a Jewish mother from Brooklyn. Her first taste of hardship came early when her mother died the day before Ruth's high schoo…

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Episode 17 - American Pulp Fiction 47:47

4y ago47:47

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I love movies that start at the end and work their way back. One of my favorites, Pulp Fiction, is Quentin Tarantino's magnum opus. It’s a black comedy based around the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. It weaves several stories together and presents them in a non-linear story arc. The opening scene takes place in a diner, where a couple are disc…

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Episode 16 - Let's Fix How We Vote 36:37

4y ago36:37

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As is the case with several topics in my book, voting is proving to be an issue that is front and center in our politics right now. Our country is divided, and elections are close. The difference between winning and losing a Presidential election often comes down to a few thousand votes in a relatively few counties. Of the more than 120 million vot…

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Episode 15 - with legendary investor Whitney Tilson 55:02

4y ago55:02

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Whitney Tilson is the founder and CEO of Empire Financial Research, which provides advice, commentary and in-depth research and analysis to help people become better investors. He is a Harvard alumnus both as an undergrad and as an MBA. Prior to launching his investment career in 1999, Mr. Tilson spent five years working with Harvard Business Schoo…

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Episode 14 - Closing Argument for Scott Caine, Congressional Candidate 33:48

4y ago33:48

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Today my guest is Retired Colonel Scott Caine who is running for the Florida 8th Congressional seat. As a fighter pilot, Scott’s stellar military career included more than 3,400 flying hours, and culminated with his final post as Vice commander of the 9th Air Force, where he led more than 29,000 military men and women. Scott is a long-time resident…

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Episode 13 - Locally Grown is Antifragile 33:29

4y ago33:29

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In June, I did my annual salmon impersonation and swam upstream from FL to my spawning grounds of New England. During my visit, I spent some time with dear friends in Peterborough, NH and discovered a new book in “the throne room” that their son was reading. It was Anti Fragile by Nassem Taleb. Initially I thought it belonged to my friend John but …

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Episode 12 - Interview with David Hunter US Diplomat 22:11

4y ago22:11

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I thought I’d take a break from our focus on rebuilding America through more powerful state and Local Government and talk about US Foreign Policy. Foreign policy is one of the few enumerated powers our Constitution gives to the federal government. After WW2, The United States emerged as THE preeminent superpower as its military guaranteed free and …

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Episode 11- with Tim Zorc, Indian River County Commissioner 24:11

4y ago24:11

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Today I am continuing my string of interviews with local leaders with Tim Zorc who is currently serving his second term as a commissioner for Indian River County Florida. Tim continues what his family started over 100 years ago as a Realtor, Consultant, Builder/Developer and Elected Official. From his family's initial purchase in 1914, the property…

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Episode 10 - Interview with Brian Barefoot; Business Exec, Educator, candidate for School Committe 25:54

4y ago25:54

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We are so pleased to have our guest Brian Barefoot with us today. Brian has one of the most distinguished careers I've seen in a long time. Not too many folks graduate from college, have an incredibly successful business career, then return to their alma mater as President. Brian did exactly this with Babson College outside of Boston, MA. In betwee…

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Episode 9 - Interview with Scott Caine, candidate for Congress FL 8th District 29:34

4y ago29:34

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Colonel (Retired) Scott Caine is a 30-year veteran of the United States Air Force as a fighter pilot, and culminated as Vice commander of the 9th Air Force, where he led over 29,000 men and women. His service included deployments to Europe, Asia and the Middle East which shaped his understanding of the strengths capitalism and freedom provided in o…

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Episode 8 - Locally Grown Principles 2 26:13

4y ago26:13

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Today I am finishing a 2-part series on the principles I believe should drive good government policy that I discuss in my book, Locally Grown: The Art of Sustainable Government. Last week we talked about two main principles that act as the limits or boundaries within which everything else happens. They are Sustainability and Adherence to the US Con…

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United We Stand 7 - Locally Grown Principles 21:43

4y ago21:43

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Today I talk about the principles that underpin the concept of Locally Grown Government. The first two are the most important because they act as the limits or boundaries within which everything else happens. They are Sustainability and Adherence to the US Constitution. I think the structure of the Constitution was designed to be sustainable. It ha…

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United We Stand 6 - with George Bailey and Ken Brown 44:38

4y ago44:38

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Jim brings in two of his smart buddies from different sides of the aisle, for a civil discussion about the charges of systemic racism within our nation’s entire police force. We dive into an analysis of the recent civil unrest to determine whether the root cause is actually systemic racism or poverty. In contrast to both sides of the aisle screamin…

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Episode 5 - What does Local mean ? 21:33

4y ago21:33

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How do you think about your status as a citizen of your hometown, your state and the United States? So how do you think about your “Local?” I think for most folks, this is a new question. But our Constitution requires that we think about it because it spreads power among those three levels of government, where we pay taxes and live by the respectiv…

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United We Stand 4 - The American Turning Point 19:11

4y ago19:11

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Like many Americans this past couple weeks, I watched in horror as protests and looting spread across America after the brutal police killing of a black man that was captured on video—shocking images that have come alongside a once-in-a-century pandemic and a Depression-like economic slide. But is the past two weeks of violence and civil unrest rea…

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