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About The Author - F. A. GriegerF. A. Grieger is an aerospace engineer, entrepreneur, and businessman. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in engineering, finance, and international business economics. A first-generation American, he has started and sold several small businesses, has run two privately held companies, and has lived both in Europe and the United States. He is the youngest of seven children, speaks three languages, and is entirely devoted to his family. A proponent of self-reliance, he grew up in a small family business where he started working at age twelve. As a young man, he worked as a bartender, bouncer, shoe salesman, road-paving worker, commercial diver, offshore oil-rig roughneck, SCUBA instructor, charter boat captain, security guard, house painter, roofer, draftsman, computer programmer, and mental health technician, all in the course of working his way through college and graduate school. His mother is his greatest inspiration. It was from both of his parents' remarkable life-story of courage, survival, and perseverance through World War II where he learned that adversity does not build character but rather reveals it.
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About the Book
What is Chasing The Rabbit ? |
The idea for the title of Chase The Rabbit comes from Greyhound dog racing as a metaphor for the plight of America's middle class. The average citizen spends about half of their waking hours for 30, 40, or more years working at a thankless job they probably dislike, in order to earn enough money to eek out a decent standard of living. Most do this mainly to try to pay off the mortgage on a home which they will never truly own, while more than 3/4 of our earnings goes toward taxes and interest paid against inescapable debts. People generally refer to this grind as "running on a hamster wheel." The reality is far worse than that. We the People have been duped into chasing an illusion of prosperity and economic freedom which, like the rabbit on a dog track, has deliberately been made unattainable. The sole purpose is to enrich the track owner, by conscripting dogs for their labor. Furthermore, the rabbit is a fake. Even if the dog could catch it, it wouldn't matter--he can't eat it anyway. Having made the rabbit uncatchable drives the dogs to never quit running after it, perpetually enriching the track owner. This condition aptly describes the illusion of American "freedom" that should be derived from home ownership and property rights. American citizens have neither. Chase The Rabbit seeks to prove this by connecting the dots on how we got here, and to explain what we the people must do to restore The American Dream of life, liberty, property; and justice for all.
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How to restore The American Dream. |
The United States was founded in the cause of liberty, whose cornerstone is a respect for individual property rights. There were three key policies over which the founders all agreed--the legal right to acquire and own private property in land an other goods; the right to sell, exchange, or give property (including one's own labor) to others on terms of one's own choosing; and the most important policy of all--government's guarantee of a system of sound money. Not one of these policies remains in effect today. The root cause of every economic ill we face can be traced to this eradication of our individual property rights. Property rights is neither a conservative nor a liberal political issue. It affects every man, woman, and child in America. The way to restore The American Dream for every individual citizen, regardless of ethnicity, origin, political leanings, race, sexual orientation, or any other superficial human difference; is to restore property rights in accordance with the tenets of the US Constitution. Chase The Rabbit spells out exactly why this is, and how it must be accomplished. |