Who’s Cheating America
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Who’s Cheating America: The Overzealous Recyclers
We take care of the elderly in America! These are our beloved grandparents and great-grandparents. We want them to be healthy. We make sure they’re getting their medications. And they often need it! Thanks to miracles of modern science, different medications keep those brains sharp and those hearts beating. If you’ve ever been to a Continue reading
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Who’s Cheating America: The Opera Lover
It’s a great American success story. A Cuban immigrant flees Castro, makes a friend in the U.S., and the two of them promptly invest in some little-known tech companies that make them indescribably rich. AOL? Yep. Ebay? Yep. Microsoft in 1979? Yep. Not a bad track record! What do they do with the money? Vilar Continue reading
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Who’s Cheating America: Unclean Hands Edition
Okay, so you run a company called Advanced Sterilization Products. Given that name, what’s the minimum you need to do? You need to have products, obviously, and they must relate to sterilization. Anything else? Well, they should be advanced. Now of course, that’s a somewhat subjective term, so there’s probably some room for disagreement between Continue reading
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Who’s Cheating America? The Smoke-Filled Room
Cheaters – they’re everywhere! Politicians promise us up and down they’re going to put an end to cheating. Work Hard and Play By the Rules, Americans! Isn’t that the motto? Do that and you’ll be fine. Except… when the politicians are themselves the cheaters. And the story of their cheating has a twist you could Continue reading
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Who’s Cheating America? Gung Ho Edition!
Ah, remember the days when we Americans weren’t afraid of China? Back when our boogeyman was Japan? You know, the days when bumper stickers said “BE American, BUY American” and movies like this one ruled the screen? Why were the Japanese so much better than us in the ’70s and ’80s? Because they cheated? Of Continue reading
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Who’s Cheating America? The Billionaire vs. The People
Okay, we had some fun with King NFL earlier this week. But what about its owners? Aren’t those the real fatcats? Well, I guess that all depends. If you’re talking about my beloved Green Bay Packers, then it’s time to sit down and be quiet. The town owns the team. You won’t find a better Continue reading
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Who’s Cheating America? The Highly Profitable Nonprofit!
Ah yes, here we are, in the week of one of our great secular holidays. Maybe the great secular holiday in America. Except that the NFL is, perhaps, closer to a religion than we care to admit. Don’t we worship our teams? Aren’t these gods we scream for? Isn’t this sweaty, feverish feeling something akin Continue reading
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Who’s Cheating America?: Murky Waters
I try to avoid politics here on the blog as much as possible. (Except when I’m writing books about it.) But if there’s one viewpoint I expect all thoughtful Americans to share it’s the old 90s slogan: Work Hard And Play By The Rules. We can all agree on this, surely! We want hardworking people Continue reading
Jacke Wilson 