Tim Williams
Borm in Chicago. Earned a BS in Business Adm. a MA in Economics. Organized The Department of Economic Development for the cities of Brockton and Salem Mass. Author of National Economic Reform, The Agenda, and the Revitalization Plan for the City of Brockton Mass.
Articles by Tim Williams
November 07, 2009
What are our elected officials thinking when they look at the latest unemployment figures.The United States economic outlook remains bleak. Businesses today are still looking for signs that the economy is improving. Today, Business won't start to expand until the employment rate increases but th...
October 31, 2009
With the continuing escalation of the violence in Afghanistan and Iraq the United States is faced with a no win situation right now. Alkida and the Taliban have thwarted every attempt the United States has used to try in eliminating all terrorist activities that threaten global economies and huma...
October 24, 2009
With more than 300 Billion of Americans tax dollars wasted on our existing health care systems, the growing number of citizens being without health care and now with the increasing rates of insurers to provide employers health coverage for their employees it is time for this country to rid ourselves...
October 17, 2009
Why does the majority of workers in the United States today feel like their place of employment is almost the same as a prison sentence? Could it be that they feel and in most cases treated that their is no way out! Trapped or held hostage by the current economic conditions of this country. Most...
October 10, 2009
Having seen the preview of the movie 2012 makes you kind of wonder, could something so catastrophic actually happen? It strikes a certain familiarity about what Nostradamus and other prophecyers have long indicated, that mankind has laid the groundwork for the total destruction of this planet. ...
October 03, 2009
Today the United States has an unique opportunity to trams form this nation from stagnancy to one of enormous economic expansion. Yet, once again the government has put their own self interest ahead of the nations. The Congress continually squanders precious moments; most notably is health care...
September 26, 2009
Having lived for 60 years mankind has advanced technology to the point that it's made some of mankind's life better, easier, and healthier. For the majority, the rest of us, we can only envision a world without hardship, drudgery or toil. There is too much inequality today where the few, the wea...
September 19, 2009
From 2007 thru 2009 every country around the globe has faced extreme financial and economic calamity. Most of which was brought on by the United States Financial and Banking Industries. What this industry did in their greed and lust for quick and easy profit was a blatant disregard of prudent f...
September 12, 2009
Every nation today is struggling to achieve some sort of national security, stability, and economic prosperity. In order to achieve those goals every nation must have a solid foundation of basic principals upon which to build. In the United States Liberty, Justice, Morality, and Education are o...
September 04, 2009
As a child of the 50's, a student in the 60's and started my professional career in the 70's all through those years the United States was evolving slowly at first then more rapidly into a nation that ceased to learn from the lessons of the past as to what made America the greatest nation. This n...
August 29, 2009
The Bush Administration in 2004 contracted a company named Blackwater to focus on terrorist activities in the mid-east. In doing so President Bush used our tax dollars to fund this organization. What has transpired is $.40 cents of every tax dollar from 2004 on is being paid to this firm that ...
August 22, 2009
The United States is the only industrialized country that does not have comprehensive Universal Health Care for all its citizens. There are countless number of insurance plans available but not one that covers all of Americans. In fact there is so much duplication of these that it so so confusing...
August 15, 2009
Who ever thought that in this the twenty first century more of the citizens of the United States of America are faced with hunger and some are literally starving because they can't find any readily available food sources and if they do the prices are so inflated they couldn't afford them anyway...
August 08, 2009
The case of the eight year old California girl whose lemonade stand was shut down because of the location and lacking proper permits reminds us that the government has evoked the kind of wrong full indignation that has perpetuated and penetrated every level of our society. This attitude has allo...
August 09, 2009
What this congress is trying to do is nothing short of blatant disregard for the taxpayer. Don't forget that Congress works for us { We the people } not the other way around. When the elected officials set out to use or allocate funds for their own personal junkets we have a very serious probl...
August 01, 2009
If the United States wanted to emulate the European version of eliminating old fuel inefficient automobiles that would be a positive approach. What actually has occurred is quite different. The Government in it's haste to dole out additional tax dollars to the already beleaguered auto industry has ...
July 25, 2009
Glorious Food! Well maybe not so glorious. The food we eat, and take for granted that the supply will always be available in our supermarkets is not what we think it is. That being wholesome, beneficial, and nutritious for our consumption. The general public is being and has been deceived about ...
July 18, 2009
To start with, lets look at some of the most sobering recent statistics that have befallen the United States. The first one is the true, not the reported unemployment figures and that is the national unemployment rate is over 13%. For cities whose populations exceed 500,000 the rate is even highe...
July 11, 2009
To answer that question a lot of factors are involved that took years to create. Forty years ago the population of the United States was more active in that most of the schools from elementary through High School required Physical Education as an internal part of the schools curriculum. The mandat...
July 04, 2009
The United States today is faced with an outdated energy grid that could at any moment render this country into a complete blackout causing massive chaos. To continue to operate the way we have been is inviting terrorism and unwanted turmoil in America. With the constant fluctuation in gas prices w...
June 27, 2009
"War the most malignant scourge of mankind." General Douglas McAurther. He was and still is right. Ever since the dawn of man countless wars, armed aggressions, and atrocities against fellow man have plagued civilizations. History is full of countless battles that determine outcomes of countrie...
June 20, 2009
At some point in our lives we have all said "what if I had done this, instead of that." Maybe we should have chosen another option instead of the one we took. In hindsight we still reflect on the what if's. Unlike my father before me the quality of life I am experiencing just doesn't compare wit...
June 13, 2009
To answer the question why the American Auto industry failed we have to go as far back as the early 1950's to the introduction of the Tucker Automobile. Here was a man who envisioned a car far ahead of it's time only to have the Oil and the major Auto industry purposely set out to undermine and ev...
June 13, 2009
Who ever thought that in this 21st century more of our citizens have lost their homes at a rate equal to that of the Great Depression of the 1930's. This dramatic rise in homelessness is attributed to many factors starting with the way our base economy has shifted from the most dominate one in th...
June 04, 2009
In early 2009 the United States government has gone into the financial and banking business and now recently the United States Auto Industry I wonder what's next? The President has thrown the book away when it comes to our form of capitalism. He pretty much came on like Mighty Mouse " Here I co...
May 30, 2009
Chasing ones dream! Can it be today most Americans can only envision what they would like to do instead of what they are now doing to make a living. Are the citizens of the United States being denied the opportunity to pursue life's passion and why are we so reluctant to answer when opportunity kn...
May 22, 2009
Of all the commodities today that doesn't have a stable price, it's gasoline. With the cost of fuel being unstable every business, family, or individual is affected is some way or another. It is impossible to maintain any budget to any degree of consistency. The oil cartel virtually holds the wor...
May 17, 2009
One of the greatest concerns of the 21st. century is the enormous amounts of human waste and pollution that is discharged into the water ways of countries and in the oceans of the world. The unabated surge of the toxins that are continuing to build up is destroying the very planet we live on. The p...
May 10, 2009
Through-out history various sects, organizations and some of the more infamous individuals have plotted and tried for Global Domination. The order of the Illuminati are no different in it's determination to suppress nations in their attempt at world conquest. This is an organization that has existe...
May 02, 2009
The "good old days" as my father called them. Lately now I am beginning to think like my father in that I now reflect back to my child hood as the "good old days". So many fine memories of my youth come back. Maybe it is because I live in such a fast and turbulent time now. The days fly by whil...
April 26, 2009
Lately all you see on television are drug adds. Either we are a nation so malnourished or habitual drug users. It is no wonder the so called war on drugs is a lost cause. With the vast amounts of illegal drugs coming into this country and the growing number of people either addicted to various le...
April 23, 2009
Of the four founding ideals and principals that became America only the way the judicial system was established enabled the United States to become a Republic. Today, there has been a complete evaporation of those ideals and principals that for 200 years the United States integrity was unquestio...
April 19, 2009
" I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul." William Ernest Henley. This quote if taken literately teaches self-reliance, respect for others, and an unbinding faith that anyone can over-come adversity. Through perseverance, patience, and a benevolence toward others has guided Amer...
April 09, 2009
The first decade of the 21st. century is all but a few months from coming to a close. It has been a very destructive decade in that it started out with one of the most violent horrific attracts upon the United States since the beginning of World War II. From that pivotal point on America became e...
April 05, 2009
At no other period in the history of the United States has there been so many people incarcerated. Ever since the beginning of the 21st. century has America had the dubious distinction as being the country with the most populous prison population. Our penal system today uses billions of tax paye...
March 28, 2009
When we think of a global economic system we would like to envision a world free of the retching poverty, disease, the corruption of political systems, the economic instability of some countries, the selfish dominance of leaders [ in that they refuse to ease the undo suffering of their people ] a...
March 22, 2009
Water! The most precious of all things Through-out history wars have been fought over the right to claim water rights. Like a nations finances, governments ability to control the availability of water is the other source in determining the destiny of populations. Transparency and effective govern...
March 14, 2009
We first have to determine what is the criteria in establishing a real living wage. It must not be confused with the minimum wage set by the United States government. A living wage is completely different in that enables individuals to contribute to the overall economic stability of any given c...
March 08, 2009
Most of us come into this world thru an act of love thru God. " We are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." this has to apply to every human being no matter where they are or where they came from.
Through Greed, Lust, manipulat...
March 03, 2009
"The history of the world is still being written by Valliant's and Cowards, by heroic and treacherous acts, the vanquished are restrained, the victorious write it, the courageous die and the cowards steal the glory." This quote pretty much suns up what has transpired through-out the history of the...
February 21, 2009
Up until now there has been no silver bullet for the continuing economic crisis brought on by the mishandling of mortgages's by the banking industry. In the good old days, banks used one simple rule to qualify people for a mortgage and that was you could only qualify for a house based on 25% of...
February 14, 2009
" Everybody at some point in their life no matter who they are has something important and relevant to say. It is up to the rest of us to listen, to read, and to see; for just maybe they will say , write, or create something so profound that it could change the course of human events for the gr...
January 24, 2009
During the course of my long athletic and professional career I have witness a decline of personal and professional behavior among athletes. The professionalism and comradely of the 50's, 60's, and early 70's have given way to a self absorption, self serving, self gratifying, and self profiteering...
January 07, 2009
Nowhere in the annals of history has a nation produced a document so profound in it's purpose for the betterment of mankind than the United States Constitution. This document does codify inalienable rights, government by the people for the people, and the right to keep and bear arms. These princip...
December 21, 2008
I am an American worker. Have been a proud employer as well as an employee for over forty years and during my working experiences a lot of changes have occurred in the workplace not only here in the United States but through-out the world. Some of the changes are for the better, while some have ma...
December 01, 2008
" These are the times that try men's souls." Thomas Paine. " What we have to fear is fear itself." Frankin Roosevelt. Two distinct quotes from different era's, that are so poinet to the time of today. Both signify a difficult and dangerous period in our history. Yet! Here we are again! How did we...
November 29, 2008
What is an alternative to drugs in helping our children succeed in school and in life?
The year was 1959 and I was just a youngster; a rebellious hyper active kid, always getting into trouble. Sometimes I'd get caught but most times I did not. My parents knew I was the fastest kid around. Nobody c...
November 18, 2008
"These are the times that try men's souls." Thomas Paine. How appros for today. The United States is in a sociological, economical, and physiological crisis. It is no wonder the American citizen is now faced with an uncertain future and how did we end up in such a calamity?
Many factors have all...
November 09, 2008
Warren Buffet stated recently that our economic troubles of today began with what he deemed as " geek's bearing formulas," actually is quite profound. When wall street brokers, investment firms, and major banks created endless investment schemes in their thirst for the quick and easy profit the w...
November 05, 2008
When a child is born the parent has a major responsibility in nurturing their newborn towards creating a lifelong thirst for knowledge. Young minds and especially infant ones are like sponges. They absorb everything. The best way to start to create that life long pursuit begins the sooner the pa...
October 23, 2008
The sagging truth behind our failed fiscal policies of the past decade.
What the federal government did recently in bailing out wall- street is comparing it to a applying a band-aid on a hemorrhaging victim. The result is not going to solve the real crises behind our failed fiscal, domestic, ...
October 23, 2008
What can be done to stem the tide of increasing youth related crimes.
" It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." Charles Dickens opening to the Tale of Two Cities. A story of the French Revolution. How aprope for today! And yet strange as it may seem the complexity of living now ...
October 25, 2008
What should be done to spur economic growth in the United States.
A recent article on stagnating wages is a direct correlation with consumer spending, which translates into a continuing downward spiral of our base economy. Prolong wage stagnation triggers personal incomes to fall over the ...
October 23, 2008
A government of the people and for the people! Isn't that what our democracy is all about? For the past 30 years the citizens of the United States have and are continuously loosing their individual freedoms. A recent case in point; The government is demanding that the communications industry conver...
October 21, 2008
Socyberty > Economics
How the United States Created an Economic Crises
An over-view of the mortgage crises of today.
The monetary system in the world today is based on faith, honor, and trust. Monies are no longer backed up by tangible assets. Remember when the gold standard was repl...
October 21, 2008
Why baby boomers find it very difficult to retire today.
When I was a young man my father was nearing retirement. Already a pension was accumulated for over 30 years with the same company. So my father could easily slide out of work and along with socal security my parents knew that enou...
October 21, 2008
How we got into this crisis and what should be done to regain economic growth.
The United States today is now only a shadow of it's gory days as the one true super power. The economic troubles are deeply rooted by our own failure to learn form the lessons that history teaches us. Histor...
October 21, 2008
The extent of global hunger in the world today.
The world is facing one of it's greatest challenges. Global Famine is going to be a reality. In some parts of the world are already facing acute food and water shortages. Even here in the United States a growing number of people face horrific starv...
October 20, 2008
The idea on how to restore and secure Social Security for generations to come is not a new concept, but to actually achieve the results needed will take bold and decisive action. One that will entail seven other articles all interwoven in such a way that they all work together or they all fail.
W...
October 20, 2008
Liberty, Justice, Education, and Morality; The Principals upon which our democracy was founded. Where are they today? The United States is being led to the brink of implosion by corporate greed, elected officials ineptness, and our own apathy. For the past 40 years we have witness a s...
October 19, 2008
To paint an accurate piture on the state of the Union, contrary to what the media, the President, and Congress constantly try to project the United States is far from being fiscally, economically, and nationaly secure. To actually achieve economic stability, long term financial prosperity, and ...
Articles by Tim Williams From Other Sources
October 09, 2008
published in How The United States Created an Economic Crisis