Hon. James David Manning, PhD speaks about the hundreds of dying black birds falling from the sky in Louisiana. Recorded on 4 January 2011. Go to http://atlah.org and http://atlahmedianetwork.org for more information.

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Because so many people have asked me “why is America in so much trouble?” and “Is America dying?…this is from my book, Save America Now:

At our MBA program at the University of Arizona in 1970, Dr. Navin would spend much time discussing the stages of a business.  Dr.Navin took the U of A program and moved it from a B-level program to a top-notched program.  As a Harvard disciple, Dr. Navin believed in the case study approach.  We used the following model to analyze the maturity level of the companies in each case that we studied.

Dr. Navin explained that a business emphasized different aspects as it matured.

·        Research and development

·        Operations (manufacturing and distribution)

·        Sales

·        Marketing

·        Finance

·        Legal

Dr. Navin would tell us that if you could figure out the emphasis of a company, then you could figure out its stage in its business life/cycle.

·        Research and Development (R&D) = Infancy

·        Operations (manufacturing and distribution) = Adolescence

·        Sales = Young adult

·        Marketing = Mature adult

·        Finance = Elderly

·        Legal = Dying

… Dr. Navin then went on to say that it was the obligation of the business executives to the business owners (stock holders) to maintain a balance of maturity in a business or to shut it down at the time that it paid the most to the owners since they took the risk to invest in the business.  That stage to shut it down was typically when most emphasis of the business was on financial issues … when it was elderly and not yet dying.

And how does a business maintain such a balance?  By having products in each stage of the cycle ready to replace the others as each continues through the cycle.  If a company is stuck in the legal cycle, then get out.  Sell everything.  The business is about to die … 

The United States just elected (in 2008) the first president with no operational leadership experience.  All forty-three previously elected presidents (yes, all forty-three) had operational leadership experience before being elected president.  Some were military officers like JFK, Grant, Eisenhower, and even Lincoln.  Some were government executives like Jefferson, Carter, FDR, and Clinton.  Some lacked international experience and some lacked legislative experience, but none lacked operational leadership experience until Obama. He is a lawyer who lacks any operational executive experience.

So where does that suggest the United States is in its maturity/life cycle?

Let’s look at the Obama platform during the 2008 election.  Redistributing wealth.  Healthcare insurance – not healthcare as a product, but healthcare insurance.  Redirecting funds from Iraq to service projects.  Appointing liberal judges.  Changing laws about union voting rules, gun ownership and the “Fairness doctrine.”  What stages are these?

If the United States were a company, what would its stage of emphasis be?  How much would you invest in its stock?   How much would you invest in its future?

…  Since the major influence to our government and many large corporations is the legal influence, then the maturity model would signal that America is about to die.

Now let me add this note:  Every solution since Democrats took control of Congress in 2007 to our economic problems has been either legal or financial (bail outs, printing money, more taxes, stimulus packages, financial reforms, healthcare “insurance,” etc.)   The Democrat controlled Congress increased the deficit from $160 Billion at the end of 2006 to almost $2 Trillion.  And more than 80% of Democrats in Congress are lawyers.  By primarily using legal and financial solutions, the Democrat controlled Congress signaled that the USA is dying.

But something happened in 2010. 33 of the newly elected Republican Congressmen of 2010 are business executives.  Maybe that is a ray of hope. Clearly, to save America, we need to remove the lawyers from running industry and the government.  Lawyers are a staff function.  They support the line functions.  We Americans made a mistake by placing lawyers in executive operational positions. There is time to correct this. We need to remove all the lawyers from line functions and replace them with operational executives.

Michael Master is the author of “Save America Now!” It can be ordered at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616235756

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