Of late Rich has
written a book Not Their Brother’s Keeper / The Travesty of Economic Science have
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His
passion is to get out his ideas which he believes that most every working
American ascribes to but does not get traction in changing lives for the
better, in a time when we are blessed with so much. This book takes a look at the results of
economics, from Adam to the present, on the vast population of the world, and
the failure of humanity to resolve these issues with the application of
goodness, kindness, and fairness. The
collateral effects of the polarization between science and religion (any belief
in goodness, kindness, and fairness) in our current day has deepened the
divides in most aspects of our lives, including the application of economic
principals. Humanities inability to see
the interdependence of these two windows of science and religion in our world,
has monumental effects that are diluting our thinking with the furtherance of
catastrophic results. Our personal care
for each other sanctions the efficacy of science and economic principals, and
the lack of care of humanity sanctions hatred and greed and will lead us to a
destruction of our own making. The
anomalies of both science and religion have the need of acceptance, an
acceptance which at present is out of our control of understanding, but they
must be admitted and disclosed. We live
in a world that only wants to see the immediate problem and only wants to
resolve that particular problem as if the problem had no source in our history
as to why the evolutionary systemic issues of polarization caused the
problem. To make the change would
require a paradigm shift of such magnitude that most are not willing to make,
but could resolve mankind’s problems, if it were not for selfishness and greed
holding us back.
Examples from history’s earliest beginnings are sited and
can display the problem of economics with its premise to serve only one’s own
self-interests. Despite our claims and
declarations of standing on higher moral grounds, we fail miserably at being
our brother’s keeper.
Born in
South-western New York State in the small town of Salamanca and from there
lived in several large and small Cites of Western New York and is acutely aware
of economic poverty and the resultant despair.
He Graduated from BYU in 1975 with a BA in Communications. He Graduated from BYU in 1977 with a master’s
degree in public administration. He worked
in the private and the public sectors in Administration, in the area of
contracts, accounting, and Community Development which included libraries,
senior centers, planning and development standards and ordinances. He was successful in establishing a private
public partnership in attracting businesses into rural Utah. While working with redevelopment agencies he focused
on attracting industry that would increase taxable value to fund everything
from schools to cities and town governmental needs, while bringing in higher
paying more technical jobs. He worked for a Civil Engineering firm doing much
of the same types of things. In both capacities (private and public) he
wrote grants and helped in development of zoning and subdivision regulations. He
worked for a major utility helping to acquire permits for a major transmission
line, which traversed northern Utah and Southern Idaho affecting both cities
and counties. He has served on State,
County and City Boards (tourism, housing, economic development, planning boards,
advisory and hiring / placement boards etc.)
He has served 3 full time missions for his Church, in Chicago,
Illinois, Rochester, New York and Salt Lake City, Utah.
He has been active in the communities where he has lived. He has volunteered in Kiwanis club projects and
served as President of his local unit, HS PTA President, Scout Master, Cub
Master, Soccer Coach, Merit Badge advisor, Credit Union board member, etc. As
well as many varied church callings.
He received the ULCT outstanding Public Service Award (Manager-Administrator),
Kiwanis Volunteer Award, and the Andy Rytting Service Award.