Title: Visionary

Gender: Male

Age: 63

Sun Sign: Aries

Chinese Sign: Fire Dog

Location: Broomfield, CO

I am an American Exceptionalist.  I believe that the Declaration of Independence is a sacred document.  I believe the world will change for the better when more of us understand that our Bill Of Rights, our Separation of Powers, and our Free Markets infuse our culture with a dynamism that will ultimately be recognized by the entire world as an essential catalyst in it's evolutionary transformation.

I also believe in Justice for All.  As America has evolved, its formerly marginalized have gradually found justice and equality and continue to make progress toward full recognition that all men are truly created equal.  One glaring exception is the American Indian.  Justice demands that we begin to open our eyes to the fact that the very worst of third world poverty exists on our Indian Reservations, and that it is entrenched there because those who live amidst unprecedented opulence choose to ignore it.

That is the part of the world that I want to change.  I have started a Foundation called the Centennial Fund for the Advancement of Native Americans (CFANA).  It will provide college scholarships, micro loans for business start ups, subsidies for quality health care, and incentives for individual property ownership. 

The following quote guides us in our path.  

 

“With tears running, O Great Spirit, my Grandfather,with tears running I must say now that the tree has never bloomed. Here at the center of the world where you took me when I was young and showed the goodness and the beauty and the strangeness of the greening earth, you have said that I should make the tree to bloom. It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds. Hear me not for myself but for my people; I am old. Hear me that they may once more go back into the sacred hoop and find the good red road, the shielding tree!”

                                Black Elk - Oglala Sioux

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