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Give Me Integrity, Or Give Me Poverty: The Greatest Need in Post-War Liberia - - Mogama
Need we bemoan how deep, how wide, and how high the culture of corruption rules and reigns across the Liberian motherland? We could do that, but why settle for the easy, thoroughly beaten path? After all, no amount of cursing the darkness can ever turn on a flicker of light. So rather than curse... Submitted 36 days 21 hours ago.

The Disappointment of One Person In America - Jose Condemarin
This story started a few years ago. To be more exact, it was December 15, 2008 after coming back from my vacation. The plan was to stay working with the same company that I had been working for the past 13 years as a contractor. I just returned from a well deserved vacation, after having worked... Submitted 1 year 192 days ago.

Don't Expect To Eat If You Don't Have a Seat At the Table - - TeamAfro
I went to a seminar yesterday on black economic development. The seminar was not particularly insightful or informative, but there were a few speakers who made some very eye-opening statements. One of those was Luis Aguilar, a Commissioner at the Securities Exchange Commission. A staunch... Submitted 1 year 219 days ago.

Is Read the Fine Print, Ethical, Moral or Ethical Relativity? - - straight talk
Is read the fine print, ethical, moral, or is it just plain Ethical Relativity? Ok, we have all received those flyers by the local car dealerships that offer you amazing terms on the purchase of a vehicle but then on the bottom is a very fine printed paragraph or two, explaining what they... Submitted 4 years 148 days ago.

Tales from the pit. - - straight talk
Tales from the pit and I don't mean Nascar. Yes, tales from the pit concerns the purchase of a used motor vehicle in the State of Florida. Now don't get me wrong it just may apply in any other state as well. It is a let the buyer beware article. Certainly it falls into line with my prior article... Submitted 4 years 150 days ago.

PMI and just what it accomplishes. - - straight talk
The State of Florida requires when a home loan exceeds 80% of the appraised value that you must escrow taxes and insurance. In my opinion this is another Free Market disaster fostered upon the majority of low paid / income workers. If you’re wealthy it matters not. It is what it is in my opinion... Submitted 5 years 89 days ago.

Walmart Employee Choked and Threatened-71 Year-Old Employee Assaulted-Walmart Employment Double Take - - Steve Kovacs
If you’ve ever been to a Walmart you’ve seen the door greeters at the front of their stores. They are mostly older, retired-aged men and women who greet you with a wide smile and cheery words as you walk in the front door and then say goodbye to you as you leave. They are usually... Submitted 1 year 57 days ago.

Three Business Resolutions for the New Year! - Bill Burch
Most of us spend some time thinking about our future and consider goals. Here are three possible resolutions whether for the New Year or for your business. The start date doesn’t matter. Sooner is better than later. There is never a better time than the present to start doing more to take... Submitted 1 year 134 days ago.

Why Employee Morale is Low - Randy Vaughan
When I mention that I have worked for sixty employers in my life, with rare exception the immediate response centers on same variation of the theme that I have a bad attitude. At one time this would force the debate of chicken and eggs and which came first. These days I state the fact and move on... Submitted 1 year 286 days ago.

Review Compliance Program Guidelines - Rose-Marie Chaperon
What is compliance? It s the act of complying, acquiescence and a disposition to yield to or comply with others. How would one write an effective compliance program? As with any policies and procedures one creates it must have a purpose to begin with. Then after the purpose has been established... Submitted 2 years 5 days ago.

The great ACH, EFT deceit - straight talk
One would think that if you have money in the bank that the bank would protect your interests and your money. Yes one would think that, but not here in America . That is not the case. One product these financial and insurance and really all finance companies offer to "help" you save money is the... Submitted 2 years 297 days ago.

Equal Pay for Equal Work: First, Define the Term "Equal" - Alf Gordon
I am about to offend a whole segment of the work force--and frankly, I do not care. I want an explanation for what I see going on in today's workplace. Notice, I said "explanation", not "excuse." A situation has occurred in recent days which has brought the phrase "equal pay for equal work"... Submitted 2 years 324 days ago.

Foreclosure, Sinkholes and Making Money. - straight talk
Well in what I call the darkness state those in power and business at many levels in my opinion have fine tuned another way to make money, it is called sinkholes. Now this is so complex one has to understand the process. First as we all know a homeowner with a mortgage is required to carry... Submitted 3 years 18 days ago.

The New Economy Company: Traditional, Disciplined, Ethical With a Purpose Beyond Profits - Jeff Brown
You've heard about the big financial companies going bottom up due to excessive speculation, liar loans, and mortgage ARMs with Pick-A-Payment programs; car companies begging for subsidies because of a lack of desire to change failed policies; and home builders over stocked to the point of... Submitted 3 years 20 days ago.

General Steel and Bernard Madoff: Business Ethics in Reverse - - Mogama
This is my longest article yet, because of much-needed background info, which forms a case study in American business ethics, or the lack thereof, as we have it in the marketplace of modern America. Burdened by the racial division a former African refugee observed in the Baptist churches of... Submitted 3 years 77 days ago.

What to Do When You Get Ripped Off by Smart Savings Center - Mogama
All you wanted to do was buy a book or some other item on the Internet. You see a great price, and you jump on it. Then the deal gets sweeter, as you compare prices, using one of those price comparison sites. Along with the deep discount, you're getting free shipping too, and that's... Submitted 3 years 132 days ago.

"Can I Get A Break On My Cellphone Minutes?" - Ronyae
I was the one person in any crowd to say that I was proud of being a Verizon Wireless customer. That is, until I was snapped back to reality while in Alabama over the Holidays. The first slap in the face was the fact that Verizon Wireless's famed theme: "Can You Hear Me Now"...is definitely... Submitted 3 years 139 days ago.

Is There a Connection Between Usury and Entrapment and Extortion and Is That Legal? - straight talk
Lets a take a hard look at the credit crisis from a fact standpoint and decide if ethics, morality, or even crime exists. I have my own opinion. All I ask of you is to draw your own conclusion. Now let us understand these Credit Card companies are taking actions to secure what they perceive... Submitted 3 years 168 days ago.

Florida, the Doom State Continued - straight talk
This is just another in a series of articles concerning Florida and how it functions, as stated by those people in state government. Hey you shall now them by their works what they have done and what they have failed to do. Well it goes for Local Governments, State and yes certainly the National... Submitted 3 years 320 days ago.

Computer Recycling For Better Environment - - John Pettifer
The IT production industry has a Large Carbon footprint, which can be reduced through the re-use and re-deployment of redundant IT equipment namely Computer Recycling. We're all aware of the impact our use of scarce resources is having on the environment. Two years ago saw a sudden and... Submitted 3 years 328 days ago.

What does Five Star rated really mean? - straight talk
Well once again we are back to "the rest of the story" as Paul Harvey says, the complete truth. It is as salesman know, when their head is nodding in agreement CLOSE! Never say more then you have to and avoid when necessary. So here it goes as to my opinion of a Five Star rating. To me and based... Submitted 4 years 20 days ago.

Megamillions Lottery, NAFTA, Bagels, and the Lazy American Worker (part 2) - - Jon Searles
Last May I submitted an article on "Minimum Wage and the Lazy American Worker" and although it was not my most read offering it was the one that received the most passionate and angry responses. One reader even mentioned a shotgun, but I was not entirely sure what he was implying. Like any... Submitted 4 years 92 days ago.

Every Business Should Use this Code of Ethics - Terry Mitchell
I wish every business selling goods and/or services in this country would adopt and adhere to the following code of ethics that I am proposing. As a legitimate business operating in the United States of America, we shall: (1) Never use fractions of a penny in any price. (2) Never use the... Submitted 4 years 140 days ago.

Trust, One of the Most Significant Words In Any Relationship. - - straight talk
Trust is what most of us place in another being, entity, situation, organization, business dealing, etc. It requires us to rest assured and be reliant on the character, abilities, truth of another, or something. It can really be said we have confidence in that which we contract into or rely on. ... Submitted 4 years 162 days ago.

Merchants of Greed, Greed, Greed, and then another dose of Greed. - - straight talk
If you sense anger, frustration, or bewilderment you are probably right. You see how many of us profess to be good decent people. Yet we work for and we do the very things that this article speaks about. If I don't do it someone else will, or "I need the job". Sadly that may be true but do we... Submitted 4 years 268 days ago.