Born a 10th generation Oregonian, (5 generations on each side) I have an enthusiasm for learning and teaching new things. After a ten year mini career in the dental field I moved on to research and embraced the social web. Though the internet is far too large for any one person to claim to be an expert, I can hold my own with the latest trends.
I enjoy researching and writing blogs. As the "Internet Program Director" for myMotherLode.com since 2008, I update the website and have a wide variety of interests. There is always something entertaining, educational or inspirational to share.
Instead of begging our enemies, declared and undeclared for more oil, President Biden should listen to former Democrat Congressman Harold Ford who recently suggested, and we quote, “The president should unwind the bureaucratic hurdles to the federal permitting process that his administration installed; expand oil and gas leases on federal land; expedite creation and implementation of the Interior Department’s five-year offshore leasing plan; and, finally, stop vilifying U.S. energy producers, many of which are leading the development of technologies to limit carbon emission…”
As American philosopher/longshoreman Eric Hoffer said: “The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we free to do than in what we are free NOT to do.”
The Reagan Era Laffer Curve that shows tax revenue increasing as tax rates decrease, is alive and well. According to the Congressional Budget Office, following the 2017 tax cuts, individual income tax collections are poised to reach $2.6 trillion, and would mark a record in its 109-year history topping the war-tax receipts of 1944 and the dot-com boom of 2000.
