This is a classic line, from the movie Top Gun, which holds true even today. Whether it's a quest for financial gain or political glory, the results are the same. The Wall Street big wigs and President Obama are writing checks they just can't cash.

Wall Street's non-existent view of a healthy economy and a lust for quick profits led the United States into one of the worst economic downturns in history. Wall Street dreamed up all sorts of investment schemes in order to make large profits. To Wall Street, it didn't matter the losers would be the American people and their retirement funds.

Since the first African slaves arrived on the shores of America, Black empowerment has always depended on the strength of Black Americans to succeed despite the obstacles they were forced to overcome.

When many Black politicians gained political power during Reconstruction, organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan emerged to thwart any dreams of Black empowerment that the recently freed slaves envisioned. And when towns such as a Tulsa, Oklahoma developed a strong Black economy through their own entrepreneurial spirit, efforts of Black empowerment were again killed and dreams destroyed.

However, as the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakahn recently stated in a speech, in the 21st century Black empowerment is totally in the hands of the Black community and no other group or individual holds power over our dreams, besides us.

In one case Spanish anti-corruption public prosecutors began the investigation last March into the allegedly fraudulent sale of the Spanish telephone installation company Sintel to the Cuban entrepreneur Jorge Mas Canosa. The action was taken after unions alleged the former management of the company had plundered millions of pesetas from the sale of the company.

A separate problem, particularly in Germany and Austria, is that some commercial banks are still owned, if only in part, by the state. Some critics feel these hybrid banks tend to fall between the best practices in either private or public sectors. Campaigners complain these banks lack transparency and suspicions of corrupt practices linger.

'Politics Against A Sea Of Social Economic Change'is a work of suggestion toward the growing U.S. unemployment rate; a jobs program creating millions of jobs without use of tax dollars.

I recall standing next to my father at an old farmhouse in Southern Indiana. Through a screen door from the wooden porch I looked fondly towards a woman resembling my grandmother. Because of previous times awaiting my fathers' return to the car, I remember this as my very first sales call. The reward for magazine subscribers and myself was a free movie in town, “Ben Hur” on a reel, and benefits for the local police charity, a win-win scenario for all. Fifty years later, I'd like to forward an argument for resurrecting millions of jobs in America. . . .

Response to an email from a well known activist Leader….

I got your plan. I read it. It isn't going to work. I can say this with all surety because I've been watching it – not work – for a long time. I understand peoples emotional attachment to their own ideas. In this case the cost of these attachments is dear. They stand in the way of getting the results you “claim” to want. I don't even know if you are truly in favor of these results. But let's accept, for now, that you are the genuine altruistic article. Here is why you'll never reach your goals.