About ThinkWeCan.com and Don Hess:
Don Hess has been investing and trading in precious metals, international currencies and the stock markets for the past 10 years. He worked in the insurance industry for 45 years. He has been a professional pool player, farmer and civic activist. He served as a sargent in the Army National Guard.
Homeless as a boy in his teens, his life experiences have taken him from working as an agricultural field hand to bussing restaurant tables. His first first promotion in life was to head dishwasher. Then a little magic surfaced from beneath the wrinkles of his dish pan hands and he started his pool playing career. In his day that was not a safe occupation and a large bodyguard was required just to escort him and his winnings out of the backwater dives where he played nine-ball and straight-pool So, he became a businessman, investor, farmer, civic activist, private pilot and a husband and father.
Over a period of years spent in sunny Miami, Florida, Gateway to the Americas, he became one of America's most experienced Pro Se litigators--that's Latin for "Be Careful In The Courthouse." It took awhile to protect his children from some rather colorful lawyers and Judges with ties to organized crime. That's a long story for another time, but he was victorious in arguing dozens of motions in Circuit Courts, District Appeals Courts and the Florida Supreme Court. He did get his kids back.
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--Note to reader: You may find it interesting to know, I wrote the following in early 2008:
The purpose of this site is to shed light on what is causing some of our most serious problems. To do that we must determine what is broken and find out who did the breaking. A lot of people in the United States take the position that we are in great shape as a nation. And, there is something to the positive mental attitude concept, it has carried the day for all of us at one time or another. Lacking any meaningful research, however, many media talking heads and their followers, armies of armchair philosophers, add greatly to our problems by advocating the concept of "what, me worry?...things are fine, the U.S. is the greatest country in the world." Many people hope our troubles will somehow go away by themselves, or, in the grand scheme of things, they will not be affected personally. In addition, there are so many societal fire storms raging in our country that most of us hardly know what to worry about first.
But there comes a time when corrective action should be taken. We are past that time. If someone is coming at you with a long knife, trusting in positive thinking because you are not bleeding just yet is a bad plan. Some of our nation's problems are so deep-seated that tens of millions of our neighbors are already suffering, and they suffer needlessly; we are doing some things very badly. Another point should be directed to those fortunate folks who are satisfied with our status quo--don't be--our troubles are building so fast all of us will soon feel the effects. There is no more important agenda for the U.S. right now than determining what changes we should spend our time, energy and resources on, and then get moving. But, asking the right questions is not as easy as it sounds.
The first full editorial (and first post of any kind) to be published on this site is an 11,000 word paper on Health Care Reform. I don't want to write too many that long but this subject is so crucial to our well-being that I spent all the time necessary to do it justice. While researching the editorial I was stunned at the depth of depravity some important people in the U.S. resort to in their pursuit of money, and how little our government is doing to solve the problem. The extensive research required to write the paper positively confirmed that we must stop thinking things are pretty much OK in the U.S. If we do not take proper corrective action, our situation is going to worsen rapidly. If we are not a nation in decay, we are getting there fast.
In their quest for advertising dollars from morally challenged corporations, we have numerous, major media outlets ignoring the harm done to the American middle class and poor. I hope this blog saves the Average Joe and Jane some time by providing precise and accurate information, commentary and insight. Most of us working stiffs have little time to locate correct information, much less sort through the lies and distortions we are constantly fed; we are too busy feeding our families.
The first and foremost promise of this blog is the delivery of facts undiluted by financial fat cats or big shots. I should add that I am neither a Republican or a Democrat. My Health Care Reform editorial should clearly demonstrate my objectivity.
By striving for accuracy and seeking the deepest truths in subjects researched, I endeavor to gain and sustain your trust. Who knows, perhaps, together, we can become agents for change.
Don Hess
