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Better Lives for Our Grandchildren: A Plane Crash Survivor's Perspective on Politics and Life , by Bill Robertson (Author)

A retired marketing executive of a $40 billion corporation, Bill Robertson has led an interesting life. Growing up in Niles, Michigan, he attended Harvard Business School, ran a marathon, scaled Mt. Rainier, played a round of golf with Neil Armstrong, met President Reagan, and made six holes in one. He also survived a devastating airline disaster aboard United Airlines Flight 232, which crashed in Sioux City, Iowa. The crash changed his priorities and his life. Spending time with a growing family became his top concern, and he worried for the future of his six grandkids. The future looked bleak. His grandkids’ generation might be the first to have a lower standard of living than their parents. This book, Better Lives for Our Grandchildren: A Plane Crash Survivor's Perspective on Politics and Life, shows how he applied his extensive marketing experience to examine the direction of the country by taking the reader on the journey that led to the election of Donald J. Trump as president. The country wanted change, and Bill’s book identifies why there was so much angst and what the country is doing to change direction.

The Silence is Deafening

October/18/2014 5:05AM
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Since 1973 the US government has been holding Congressional hearings on gasoline prices. Year after year, decade after decade the government and the compliant media have pointed figures at the oil industry for manipulating prices. Now prices are dropping and there is silence. Silence from Washington DC and no big stories on the nightly news. Read the full article…

College Tuition End-Game

October/15/2014 6:59AM
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We all watched the mortgage meltdown as it unfolded. Easy money made housing prices rise. Easy money provided by our government through Freddie, Fannie, and the FHA, guaranteeing home loans. And, the same federal government insisting banks and lending institutions give a certain percentage of mortgages to minorities regardless of the credit-worthiness of that percentage. Then defaults grew and Read the full article…

Grading on the Curve

October/12/2014 6:22AM
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It was in junior high when I was first introduced to grading on the curve. Since then I’ve learned it applies to all aspects of life. Some students are not going to do well, some are going to excel, and the majority will fall in between. Most of us lived with it all through college. When Read the full article…