In Volume Three of the American Enterprise Party Book, “Restore the American Work Ethic with Humanism”

I write about who will do it … hopefully the answer is, it will be by enterprising American workers. But first we must restore worker patriotism that has been destroyed by apathy . . . “Restore the American Work Ethic with Humanism” . . . “Where oh Where has it Gone.” It focuses on improving our output by revamping our input of human capital values. Work for the sake of patriotic pride and the quality of life not just for the sake of money and job security.  As for my work ethic I have owned small businesses for 37 years, that I have started from scratch, creating jobs, and envisioning better management systems and methods for principally health care facilities. I have never been unemployed, never drew unemployment or worker’s comp and have missed no time from my employment in 59 years.  I have either been extremely lucky or an image of my father a Great common, every day, blue collar, enterprising American who worked in the Firestone Factory in Des Moines, Iowa for 32 years. And even today I remember accompanying my father to union meetings and being influenced as a factory worker myself when I was employed by Firestone one summer. Those images were and are the foundation of the work ethic we seem to have lost and the scenario I propose as the solution to the demise of the American work ethic victim of the new entitlements. As the author of the American Enterprise Part y Platform, I’m a product of a small patriotic farm community in Iowa that was called God’s Little Acre in the 1940’s as a totally dry town that even frowned on smoking and most certainly did not condone teen pregnancy or divorces. We had no minorities of color or religion . . . we were all poor to almost poor red neck white trash by today’s standards. But out of that culture grew a common sense and hard work ethic. My dad for example was never unemployed never drew unemployment, never missed work but went on strike every union contract year, for months on end, to make sure they protected their promised benefits that they never got. He, at the age of eighteen, and his two brothers had to leave the farm in 1929 during the Great depression when there were no grain for crops and no food for the 8 children, to ride the rails across America . . . his stories about working for a $1 per day with a noon meal, sleeping in hobo camps along the way, drinking moonshine for survival, riding the rails across America, then returning to the farm when they heard that the depression was over . . . all of these adventures were featured in a recent HBO documentary about the Great Depression of 1929. Making him the man he was . . . a man of work that never swore in his family’s presence, never drank in his family’s presence, never wanted any management responsibility and never missed work . . . the Iowa work ethic of old. Also, being an entrepreneur in America and a small business owner myself why would I venture into the buzz saw of conventional wisdom dominated by political pundits who intellectually spout “issues” as facts and facts as “no problems” as the domain of the establishment “Big Brotherhood” Congress, Big Media, the Big Tech, Big Box companies and never putting forth the voice of the silent majority? Because CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, conservative radio, liberal leanings of the celebrities and universities are not reporting the depth or breadth of America’s decline. They are in fact the beneficiary of the hard-working enterprising majority who do not have a voice. However, all good things come to an end unless there is revitalization of the principles that got us here. So, much of the three volumes of The American Enterprise Party are based on factual data and statistics gleaned over a number of years as I wrote manuscripts regarding the need for political and Government reform to ensure we worship Enterprise rather than institutionalized money.