Bring Back the Cricket

Business & Corporate Ethics

Once upon a time in America our nations business leaders were all about creation and innovation, and not just glitz and marketing... Once upon a time in America the Cricket reigned and not the Locust.

Can we save the American Dream – a book review - Without our fellow Americans who lived before us, and the American nation for which they believed and lived, there would be no American Dream for any of us to aspire.

Bring back the Cricket! And a conscience for Corporate America. - by Glenn R. Jackson - Once upon a time in America our nations business leaders were all about creation and innovation, and not just glitz and marketing. Once upon a time in America our nations business leaders would shine the light of a community-centered conscience through their business affairs, and carry around them an enthusiasm for this nations citizens. Once upon a time in America Walt Disney was such a leader, and in America the Cricket reigned and not the Locust. Archives

Global Ethics for the 21st Century - by Glenn R. Jackson - With the end of the philosophical fray between two competing philosophies - communism and capitalism - the resolution of the adversarial political struggle flowing from their meeting, the Cold War was decided in favor of the West and the leadership of the United States. Communism as a philosophic force is spent, discredited, and essentially vanquished (China, politically communist/totalitarian, is essentially propped up by capitalist societies utilizing that nations cheap abundant labor.). Yet at the beginning of the 21^st century it has become increasingly possible that capitalism itself, at least in application, has suffered deep wounds possibly leading to its own demise. Capitalism in its current global applications has itself become a great threat to human dignity and freedom.

Investigating Competition as an Ethically Neutral Process - By Glenn R. Jackson - First, it is the intention of this paper to show that society has been undergoing changes to it's fundamental values and ethics stemming primarily from a business influence. Second, in regard to these changes, competition as a process is ethically neutral. Third, that it is the use to which competition is put, and the input that it is furnished as a process that is responsible for the change society is experiencing. And finally, because it is implicit in our examination, an actual example will be offered to demonstrate an alternative available in business competition. Archives

Stewardships Betrayal - Can We Still Save the American Dream? - by Glenn R. Jackson - Stewardship, the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care, is more moral imperative than a managerial role. Stewardship depends on rejecting the immoral mine of the here and now and embracing an entrustment for the future. Stewardship defines the temporal nature of things and foresees the future needs of others. Stewardship applies as well to nations and generations as it does to individuals. Archives

Enron and the H-1B American Worker Replacement Program: The Corporate Scandal You Are Not Hearing About - by Glenn R. Jackson - What do Enron, WorldCom, Qwest, and Tyco have in common? If you answered, putting one over on their employees and shareholders with dishonest accounting practices, you are only partially right. Accounting irregularities are only the tip of the iceberg that the American worker should find objectionable in the brave new corporate world of Enron and beyond. While the media has reported extensively on the guilt of these companies in their inflated accounting and corporate valuations, they have ignored another more long term and destructive practice engaged in by these and other American corporations. Archives

John Wesley: A Call to the Modern World - by Glenn R. Jackson - Is it possible to understand, and more importantly, to answer secular political concerns with a pure Christian worldview? Can politically active Christians form a Christian political response for environmental, trade, taxation, and social entitlement issues?

There is a Problem with Collective Moral Rights! - by Glenn R. Jackson - "A collective moral right is distinct from a collective legal right. A collective legal right is one conferred by legal rules on some collective as a legal guarantee against the infringement of that collective's interest/choice, as the case may be."

Revenge of the unemployed - "Tax dollars should not be going outside the country," Glenn Jackson said. "We will be protesting and lobbying at the state level." American Worker Protection Bill

Save American Manufacturing

Squandering the U.S. Industrial Base - By Pat Choate - America first learned the importance of an assured military industrial base during the Revolutionary War, a conflict whose success was far from an assured thing. Success depended ultimately on the new nations ability to secure the arms and supplies needed to make war against England, then one of the worlds foremost military powers.

Making Sense of the New U.S.-Singapore Trade Deal - By Pat Choate - U.S. trade negotiators report that they are nearing completion of a landmark free trade agreement with Singapore.