We just published a podcast which covers these joined stories. This blog adds some little known facts to the many stories of institutional dishonesty and abuse. The fourth largest bank in our country was Wells Fargo. It was ruled by a CEO named John Stumpf who evidently was fined 17.5 million dollars and banned from…
Category: Miami Memoirs
RETIREMENT-The Golden Years?
If you visualize yourself playing pickle ball in the shade of the palm trees and sharing cocktails in the moonlight on the beach with beautiful new friends, better rethink the picture. The TV ads don’t tell you that the retiree group has a 100% rate of death, disability and serious disease. To a great degree…
Esther Krasne is still alive and relevant
Esther Krasne was 90 years old over twenty years ago. She’s gone and only one of her children is alive and he’s 95. So why is her birthday speech alive and quite relevant? Esther Krasne was right to protest that despite the Declaration of Independence, all men were NOT created equal. That criticism remains valid….
A visit from the IRS
“They’re coming for you. And they have guns.” That’s the warning coming from some right wing elected officials. Those congresspersons received huge sums from the very rich to deter the government from collecting taxes. Actually, very few IRS agents are armed, and only if they are deemed to be at risk. Usually you’ll get a…
Another Visit to the U.S. Supreme Court
At the end of the May blog, I told you that I wasn’t sleeping well because of my concerns about The Supreme Court. Actually, I was having nightmares. Now I’m reliving Thomas Jefferson’s criticism of Chief Justice John Marshall when he said: “How dexterously he can reconcile law to his personal biases.” No Court…