Running Amok

About the Book

Our forefathers "Pledged their Lives, their Fortunes, and their Sacred Honor" to "Secure the Blessings of Liberty for Themselves and their Posterity", to provide a better life for us, people living more than two hundred years after they are gone. What an amazing thing! They put their lives on the line for people who would be living two hundred years into the future! And what are we doing today for our children, our grandchildren, and the generations to follow us?

We are overpopulating their world; burning up irreplaceable resources; polluting the land, the water, and the air; destroying the forests; driving other species to extinction; promoting dogma over science and reason; continuing to foster intolerance for anyone different from ourselves; solving disputes with bombs and destruction; creating a nation that does not manufacture anything; and building a mountain of debt for future generations to repay!

So I sat down and wrote a book expressing my opinions regarding some of the things that I believe we as a society should be doing to improve life for ourselves and for those future generations. I don't expect that everyone will agree with all of my opinions. I don't expect that anyone will agree with all of my opinions. I expect that many people will want to tell me to take all of my stinking opinions and shove them back where the sun don't shine. But everyone should give some serious consideration to topics that they deem important to society and should form well reasoned opinions as to what they think should be done about them. I hope this book helps to stimulate that effort.

About the Author

I am blessed to have been born and to live in this great country of ours, where a person can express his opinions in a book like this. I grew up in the industrial northeast corner of Indiana, worked summers in the steel mills, and earned an engineering degree at Purdue, followed by a couple years service in the U.S. Army on Okinawa. I have spent my working career as a manufacturer, and have twice built companies from the ground up. My wonderful wife, Judy, and I have been married for more than thirty eight years. She has been a sounding board for many of the opinions I have expressed in the book, and she is a tough audience. Our three grown children and three grandchildren (so far) have been a constant source of pride and joy.