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Mr. Greaney, a Certified Public Accountant, is CESJ's Secretary, volunteer Director of Research, and a member of the executive committee. He has audited profit and non-profit organizations throughout the world, with the American Red Cross, Georgetown University

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Personal Finance > Health Insurance What to do about millions of uninsured Americans: 14 of 15
Depending on your source, there 45 or 47 million Americans lack health insurance . . . give or take a few million. The sheer magnitude of the problem suggests that temporary measures or expedients won't solve the problem. The health system and the economic system supporting it need fundamental reforms to address the basic ne... More..
Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes Is classical music dead?: 37 of 38
Classical music is alive and living in the world of the arts and among the public. The problem is that traditional models of musical organization are dying on the vine. As arts organizations struggle for funding from governments increasingly strapped for funds and private donors worried about their own financial security, ma... More..
Personal Finance > Taxes Should you be taxed for using the Internet?: 27 of 27
Freedom of speech and expression is a touchy issue, and many people misunderstand it. Fortunately, the issue is rather clear cut in the question whether the State should tax internet access. A brief review of the issue reveals that taxing the vehicle of free speech is tantamount to discouraging free speech. This was one of t... More..
Arts & Humanities > Writing & Rating at Helium Look before you leapfrog: Rating leapfrog articles at Helium: 15 of 15
Rating is not something to agonize over. It is, in fact, one of the most useful learning tools on Helium. I do not mean how others rate your articles, but how you rate others - if only by showing you in the most graphic way possible what to avoid. Usually this is easy. You are presented with two articles on the same subject,... More..
Business > Entrepreneurial Spirit Do not let outside influences get in the way of being successful: 10 of 10
The best and most natural way to keep outside influences get in the way of being successful is to make them work for you rather than against you. While sounding like a paradox, this is the way you can recognize that the human person is both an individual and a social being - at one and the same time. "Man is by nature a poli... More..
Personal Finance > Credit Cards Credit trap: Keeping young adults on the right track with credit cards: 7 of 7
The first step in learning to use credit wisely is to learn how to use money in a wise manner. This must be done before anyone - not just a young adult - receives or takes out a credit card. Otherwise the tendency is to view a credit card as "free money," with the inevitable repayment of the loan (and every use of a credit c... More..
Business > Advertising How do subliminal ads work?: 5 of 5
Once considered a serious threat to Americans' independence of thought and action as well as to their sanity, concern over subliminal advertising has been relegated largely to turf occupied by conspiracy theorists and academics desperately in search of thesis material. I know, because I used to fall into the latter category,... More..
Business > Leadership Strategies Ways stronger morale boosts profitability in an organization: 4 of 4
Some years ago Jack Stack, president of Springfield Remanufacturing Company, wrote a book (with a little assistance, no doubt) called "The Great Game of Business." In the book, Stack told the story of how he had taken a company that had been spun off from International Harvester as a total loss and turned it around into one ... More..
Entertainment > Movie Genres Early epic science fiction movies: 2 of 2
A few years ago I read a startling sentence in an article that otherwise impressed me a great deal. The author made a significant contribution to the understanding of a much-denigrated movie genre, the science fiction film. He only made a single error as far as I could tell. He opened his otherwise splendid article with the ... More..