My name is Christopher Peter and welcome to The Christopher Peter Podcast, formerly The CRC Review. My podcast will continue to be your source for common sense analytical commentary on salient topics impacting our economy and society.
The integrity of our elections is paramount to legitimacy of our American democracy, which has seen radical claims made after each of the last two presidential election cycles. As a result, changes and proposed changes will impact how we vote in future elections and how secure the elections are.
In this podcast, I discuss how to protect the integrity of our elections as well as protecting access to voting. Additionally, I will touch on how political themes of inequity impact our public policy and accountability for government leaders. Please click above to experience the Protecting The Vote podcast here on the Christopher Peter Podcast.
My name is Christopher Peter and welcome to the CRC Review. The CRC Review is your source for common sense commentary covering salient topics impacting our society and economy.
Traditionally, Americans expect our leaders to champion our values, interests, and causes in every corner of the world, especially within our own borders. We expect America to be at the forefront of the global push for good, even if we have to take charge or go at it alone. America is not just another nation, but the lone symbol of true freedom, democracy, and opportunity.
America deserves strong leadership representative of our democracy rather than a push towards autocracy. The false need to operate in a hectic manner than the deliberative and transparent approach expected is pushing us towards greater autocracy then democracy. Americans wants governance by principle not by manufactured crisis. Leaders should be able to build consensus rather and not coerce society.
In this podcast, Leading from Behind, I discuss the recent current events and other factors to show our leadership is not performing up to par and the potential ramifications society is experiencing. Also, I discuss a possible better incentive to get more people vaccinated. Please click above.
My name is Christopher Peter and welcome to the CRC Review. The CRC Review is your source for common sense commentary covering salient topics impacting our society and economy.
America celebrated its 244th year since declaring our independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Americans should be proud to live in the United States. America affords opportunity, freedom, and self-determination as well as a cultural melting pot like nowhere else. Our nation is not perfect, but neither is any other one. Our perspective must not anchor solely on our flaws, but on our strengths and efforts to overcome our past mistakes.
I am proud to be an American and live in the United States. I do not connect with those voices in our society attempting to use our past indiscretions as a divisive wedge for political purposes. Or a convenient cover for their perpetually failing political agendas. I rather look at the convenient facts. If America is so racist and discriminatory, why do so many people migrate here each year? Why hasn’t any one of the people claiming offense left our borders? Because we know the good outweighs the bad and we are always hopeful for a brighter tomorrow.
American life does not come without challenges. Each day Americans adapt to changes and challenges we did not ask for. Find ways to overcome adversity that we did not expect or plan for. Elevate our station in a life that we had no input in. American life is always built around hope and aspiring for a brighter future. A brighter future that we define for ourselves not given to us by a distant entity disconnected to our needs and wants.
In this podcast, I discuss how we can build up from adversity, challenges that can get in the way, and the fragility of freedom. Additionally, I discuss recent current events. Please click above to experience American Adversity.
My name is Christopher Peter and welcome to the CRC Review. The CRC Review is your source for common sense commentary covering salient topics impacting our society and economy.
The United States needs to have strong and decisive leadership both domestic and abroad to protect our way of life and our democratic form of government. Our leadership needs to be bold and able to advance our interests in the face of any challenges. America needs to be able to bring together our allies to craft effective solutions, while willing to go at it alone to pursue what is right and just.
A constant talking point in our political discourse is the fragility of our democracy. A strategy used to create fear of voting for opposing political candidates. Missing from our discussions are the attitudes and behaviors that take place each and every day that harm our democracy. Behaviors that occur well beyond the beltway politics. Our American Democracy may cease to exist if we continue to silence the voices of our fellow Americans, advance narratives and hide truths, and abandon our freedom for the false comfort of government intervention.
The above podcast is Leadership & Democracy, where I discuss the recent current events that highlight the importance of preserving our American democracy and highlight in more depth the challenges that need to be addressed. Some are quick to point out the anti-democratic positions abroad but slow to realize the same behaviors are taking place here as well.
My name is Christopher Peter and welcome to the CRC Review. The CRC Review is your source for common sense commentary covering salient topics impacting our society and economy.
The title of this podcast is a Nation of Good People. The United States of America is a nation of good people. Recent news events or trending social media threads might make it seem otherwise. But the totality of American life reflects kindness, generosity, and compassion that typically goes unnoticed. America is one of the only nations that goes to great lengths to empathize with its citizens. Even in situations where complaints derive from normal every day life. Most nations care little about the emotional hysteria of their people.
The high velocity of information can make people lose perspective of the actual situation. People throw out selective statistics without considering the complete context of the actual data. This is largely why people tend to treat others based on stereotypes and false judgments. For instance, the proportion of people in gangs or other organized crime organizations are mere fractions of the groups stereotyped by these. The proportion of people who hold strong racist sentiments and act on them is small when you consider the whole group stereotyped. Society tends to obsess over one aspect without considering the whole picture.
That does not mean we do not have opportunities for improvement. We certainly do. Some in our society pose threats to the rest of us. Some in our society lack the needed respect for our shared rights and freedoms. Some do not afford basic respect to others because of their level of notoriety or socioeconomic status. Some behaviors demonstrated by some in our society need to start to live up to our social norms of good rather than altering the definition of good behavior to fit otherwise bad into it.
In this podcast, I look at the how to ensure America remains a nation of good people. I discuss how to protect our rights and freedoms while addressing the need to mitigate bad behaviors and choices by those that live among us. Please click above to experience A Nation of Good People.
My name is Christopher Peter and welcome to another episode of the Christopher Peter Review. My podcast will always be your source of common-sense analytical commentary on salient topics impacting our economy and society.
The title of this podcast is Our Quality of Life. Americans are blessed to live in a nation that affords security, opportunity, and freedom, which many across the globe do not enjoy. While not perfect, there is no nation that really affords this mix in the same level of satisfaction as the United States does.
Our Declaration of Independence affords us the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, which epitomizes American life. Americans value freedom of self determination in how we live and how we pursue our definition of success. Opportunity and personal investment are the keystone of American freedom. Without economic freedom, the other freedoms are at risk.
The person or entity that controls your purse strings controls to a large degree of what you can do, say, or think. Consider those dependent on government programs. Any speaking out against government can be quashed by a simple reminder of who controls the policies funding their existence. People tend to vote their wallets. But people filling their wallets off the government coffers might find it hard to speak their mind and free themselves.
Americans should never trade our freedom, opportunity, and self determination for the false comforts of government. Americans must remain self-reliant, independent, and innovation. Americans must continue to be leaders in global innovation to protect our way of life and economic interests. In this podcast, I discuss how to do just that as well as dive into a discussion about some recent current events.
Please click above to experience Our Quality of Life.
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Our governing principle in America is that of a representative democracy, where the power theoretically resides with the people, who elect representatives to do the work of the government. The idea of a limited government is not simply a Republican staple, but an essential requirement for a free society.
The real foundation of American society is freedom. Freedom associated with the spirit of self-reliance. Freedom of self-determination in our economic pursuits and matters. Freedom to choose the way we live our lives and accepting the responsibility and consequences of those choices.
A requirement for a free society is the empowering of the people rather than government. Government, by nature, is somewhat oppressive by the coercive nature of limiting behaviors. Sometimes the limitations are essential. Other times the limitations are completely political.
America is at somewhat of a crossroads in deciding whether society will continue to resemble the free democracy and free enterprise economy that created a perfectly imperfect nation. America has flaws, as every nation does, but Americans must not exchange flaws for flawed ideology.
In this podcast, I discuss how America can improve our governance to protect the society we all love. Also, the recent economic boom is addressed along with other current events. Please click above to experience A Better Way.
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The current environment Americans live in is not normal. The residual effects of the global pandemic changed the way Americans interact and operate in society. Public policy provided Americans great insight on how far the government will go to demonstrate its power over the people.
America is a nation valuing freedom and self-determination, but our leaders went to great to curb both even when those efforts were no longer needed. Give the government an inch and it may take a mile through coercion. At times, society needs to trust our leaders, but our leaders should operate in the spirit of America.
In this podcast, I discuss the state of our journey through the pandemic as well as other salient topics from our current events. Please click above to experience Our Current State.
The CRC Review is your source for common sense commentary covering the public policy and salient topics impacting our national economy and overall society.
Americans deserve to live in communities where law and order is the norm not a privilege. Americans of all backgrounds should be able to raise their children, work, and live their lives in safe communities. Threats to people’s safety, the public’s trust, and the credibility of our economy and institutions cannot be tolerated.
There really is no such thing as a victimless crime. There always is a victim in a crime. Insurance does not address all the repercussions associated with criminal acts. People should not sympathize with those who choose criminal acts. Yes, it is a choice.
Our idea of justice is not always as straight forward as one might ideally expect. The good do not always win and the bad in our society benefit. Americans must require our leaders hold bad actors accountable and improve law enforcement’s ability to bring people to justice in a fair and equal manner.
In this podcast, I discuss crime in America and justice in our society. Please click above to experience Crime & Society.
The CRC Review is your source for common sense commentary covering the public policy and salient topics impacting our national economy and overall society.
Some people feel that government spending is possible without limitations. These individuals are wrong. There are numerous examples throughout the world that excessive government spending negatively impacts an economy in the long run and devalues currency.
There is a need for government spending in times of crisis or economic instability but spending needs to be limited. The best approach is to utilize on what is needed before the private sector is able to provide for society once again. There is multiplier effect in terms of growth in private sector spending, whereas some economists believe there is a suppressing effect with public spending.
Our spending also should not fully subsidize poverty rather help to elevate people towards income mobility. There will always be some people in need of perpetual assistance, but every able-bodied citizen should be working and contributing to our society.
In this podcast, I discuss how our government spending can be made more efficient and effective. Additionally, I discuss salient current events. Please click above to experience The Money We Spend.