Retired ('92)after working for every Administration since Truman, with the exception of the last 3 administrations. Mainlining golf is a major addiction, along with grandchildren, travel, great books, and the leisure to really absorb it all. A policy wonk with a penchant for supporting issues including but not limited to: modern monetary operations, industrial hemp cultivation, wave energy powering the Gorlov helical turbine to replace most fossil fuels used to generate electricity, cultivation of industrial hemp to replace cotton and other inferior products, as well as thousands of other products normally produced with petroleum by-products. I firmly believe in the following: "In the absence of freedom there is no creativity, and in the absence of creativity, there is no progress." RB 1972