Will Adams – Online

Yesterday, I visited the site of the Monument to Crazy Horse in South Dakota.  This will be the world’s largest mountain carving.It’s located in the Black Hills, only a few miles from Mount Rushmore.  If you’ve never seen it, you should go.  Not because is dwarfs Mt Rushmore in size and scale, but because a FAMILY is running the show.  They take NO governmental funding of any kind.  They take no funding from the Indians.  The public is funding this project.  A family business has taken on the challenge of building this monument and they want you to help…NOT the government! In fact, They’ve turned down funding from Uncle Sam…twice!

It’s been over fifty years to get to where they are now, & it’ll be at least another fifty before they’re done, but from day one, the family (aka home) business has been in control.  I’m going to write more about this on my own blog at www.willadamsonline.com when I come back from vacation.  I’ll let all of you know when I do.

My initial thought is this.  If a FAMILY can dedicate itself to the vision of one man, Korczak Ziółkowski, to create a monument to Crazy Horse and all Native American Indians, and keep the government out of it … God Bless ‘em!  America needs more people who believe in Free Enterprise instead of a free lunch.

Writing Tonight From Deadwood, SD

Will

P.S. Speaking of free enterprise…

“The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” — Science-fiction writer William Ford Gibson wrote this back in the 1980′s.

The signs of the future are all around us.   The evidence is everywhere if we will only open our eyes.  There are always clues, but it isn’t until much later that most of the world grasps their significance.   continue reading…

Someday it had to happen…  Hitwise is reporting that Facebook surpassed Google in the U.S. to become the most visited website through the week of March 13… continue reading…

Those of you who called and asked why I was so negative in my last two posts have missed the point.   My post was not doom and gloom (if you are a person who can adapt and change), but rather to lay out the facts as I see them.  If you know the truth, then it is much easier to know how to serve others because you’ll have a good idea about what they need.  Remember Zig Ziglar’s famous quote: “You can have anything in the world that you want if you’ll help enough other people get what they want.” continue reading…

To continue on with the previous post, I’d like to have you read a concise explanation of the problem by John C. Goodman.  Mr Goodman is the president, CEO, and Kellye Wright Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis.  This is the best discussion of the problem I have come across yet, and is much shorter than anything I could write.

“The need to deal with risk is not a new human problem,  From the beginning of time, people have faced the risks of growing old and outliving their assets, continue reading…

Today is the start of a series that outlines one of the biggest opportunities of our lives. The possibilities are huge. Events are taking shape now. Before you can take full advantage of the opportunity, let’s examine some facts and history that will put it into its proper perspective.

On September 22, 2008, Lehman Brothers, the world’s largest bank, announced its insolvency. Within minutes, the value of the stock market plunged to historic lows, clobbering investors continue reading…