Each election year it is our duty to find the truth about the candidates for whom we will be casting our vote. Voting is not just a privilege, it is our responsibility. It is also our responsibility to research the candidates and understand their prior record and what they stand for; their platform. It can be a challenge to learn about new names on the ballot. We can look at the incumbents, and from their record, understand what their platform is on issues. The only way to understand where a new candidate will lead is to understand where they have been and what they stand for.

    Our corporate world is in a space in time where greed and selfishness has overpowered common sense and leadership. Many people look with amazement at the current economic state of corporate America with distress and resentment. They ask how we arrived at this desolate abyss of financial jeopardy in corporate America. The media and national political leaders attempt to break down an explanation, littered with finger pointing. I learned as a small boy, that when we point a finger at another, there are three fingers pointing back at ourselves. My point is; everyone who is trying now to explain the financial crisis has either been fully aware of it or in the middle of it for years.

Spring is in full bloom and we look forward to summer with great anticipation.

Not many issues in our lives can be more complex than understanding politics. Most of us have been trying to sift through the minutia of the retoric omitted by politicians for most of our adult life. Sometimes, we can dig through to the truth, and at times we are fooled into believing the rhetoric.