Fitz File

A consistent talking point and rallying cry for all politicians is to create jobs. Every ideology has some platform dedicated to job growth or change. Yet the two most prominent political parties, Democratic and Republican, have not addressed the true stimulant for job growth and wage increases that have predicated every “boom” in our capitalist society. President Trump and the majority of the Republican party had continually stuck with the age old supply-side economic theory: if you cut taxes on the wealthy and corporations, they will take the money they save a reinvest it in the economy, creating production and job growth. With the rise of Trump Republicanism, Democrats have moved to the left, slowly embracing a job guarantee system along with demand-side economics. The government will provide a job if you cannot find one yourself, along with lower taxes for lower- and middle-class people, ensuring their ability to continuously buy, causing production to match demand. Both sides d...

            One of the platforms for the incoming House Democrats, now empowered with a majority in the chamber, is a ‘Green New Deal’. Harkening back to FDR and his New Deal, this plan would put a focus on educating our work force, heavy investment in green tech, and a federal job guarantee, among other things. While I have not done an enormous amount of research on the details of the plan, I cannot help but think about the rebukes surely to come. In the age of Trump and Twitter, it is important to have a set group of quick, marketable talking points that a voter can easily grasp. This is one of the reasons why I always say Democrats win debates, Republicans win elections: they always have an easily digestible message that Dems don’t. But, not heeding my own advice, I want to take on two common talking points that conservatives claim will kill jobs: environmental regulation and wage increases.    ...

A tool is something that is used to carry out a particular function, and some are more useful than others. Sometimes we find that the secondary uses of tools turn out to have more complicated consequences than we first imagined. The tool that I want to address today is one of interconnected wires, computers, and servers which allow for the near instantaneous transfer of information: the internet. While there are many different places the internet essentially ‘started’, it all predicated on the same idea: that the faster age required a faster way to transfer information from one location to another. Whether through the Department of Defense and DARPA , or AL Gore’s initial funding through the High Performance Computing Act , what we have today has dramatically shifted the way we exist as a species. And like the tools of the past, there are secondary results that we must address and get used to. Today I want to talk about the three worst things about the internet and their results. An...

                        Former FBI Director James Comey released his book a few months ago detailing his interactions with Donald Trump and his own philosophies on moral leadership. A Higher Loyalty describes just that, an understanding of the higher callings of truth and morality that sometimes drive a person to break norms or loyalties with their superiors. Comey stresses this by reminding the reader “the higher loyalty is to lasting values, most important the truth.” The release was predated by rounds of TV, Radio, and newspaper interviews where he expanded on the revelations in the book and his opinions surrounding the decisions he made as Director. Although you can only give so much new information after your 20th   interview, one point really struck me, that he did not believe President Trump should be forcably removed from office. Expressing what I think is an impressive prospective of...