In 2008, the United States suffered a catastrophic meltdown of our economy. This was the result of a collapse of leveraged real estate financing of home mortgages. This was due to low interest rates set by the Federal Reserve and large financial organizations using leverage to multiply their investments. Rapidly rising unemployment, a massive number of home foreclosures, near collapse of the banking and investment sectors - all of these and more contributed to one of the bleakest economic times since the Great Depression. According to Jack Reinhard, we must give full and complete credit for this epic disaster to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve printed unlimited amounts of currency to fund several economic bubbles, including the one that burst in 2008. Congress used the high fund levels to relax home lending requirements to allow almost anyone to purchase homes. People took advantage of low interest rates and minimal credit requirements to create a home building bubble. Congress also used the abundant fund levels to increase entitlements and the country's budget deficit. To create an environment that prevents this from happening again, free and independent people must help reduce the Federal Reserve's power. We must regain control by finding and supporting responsible government leaders. How can this be done? The answers are within these pages. Reinhard presents a new way of looking at how people and their government should work. Although new to recent thinking, much of the thoughts are similar to those of individual citizens in early America and the first centuries of the country's past. "Freedom and Happiness, A Philosophy for All" provides concrete steps and strategies to create, gain, and otherwise master the concepts of this new method of thinking. Breaking down his steps into the environments of religious/spiritual, political/governmental, legal/judicial, business/market, social, and mental/emotional, he provides the information necessary to revolutionize every aspect of your life. Reinhard's method provides individuals descriptions of the environments; how to cope with them; how to improve on them; and finally the strategies to obtain the most progressive goals for them. The new freedom and happiness philosophy is applied to the above common environments to improve the quality of life in a very accessible and readily apparent implementation style. Inspirational and brimming with optimism, his how-to guide for filling your life with freedom and happiness leads us to a new era of personal responsibility and improved circumstances. An overriding concern for the world in which his children and grandchildren will live drove Jack Reinhard to write this book. He wants them to live happily in environments that will allow them to achieve their maximum potential. He hopes that they will also cooperate with their fellow free individuals to achieve the maximum potential of the country in which they live. His positive approach, affecting change rather than pointing out flaws, is a breath of fresh air in an otherwise critical atmosphere of blame and finger-pointing. Full of enthusiasm and confidence, this primer on improving the consciousness and purpose of our selves and those we come in contact with is a message of kindness-one sorely needed right now. A beacon of hope in a time of trouble, Freedom and Happiness: A Philosophy for All is a harbinger of a better tomorrow.
About the Author: Jack E. Reinhard is a Professional Engineer with Texas and Tennessee registration. He has a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering (University Of Texas - Austin, graduating as a member of Chi Epsilon- the Civil Engineering honor fraternity), a Masters in Economics (University of Texas - Arlington) and is a graduate of the Stone and Webster Management Development Course and the Professional Management Institute Planagement Facilitative Leadership Training. His work experience spans over 30 years of executive and management positions in utility, engineering, and construction industries in both corporate and government organizations. His career utility expertise has been concentrated in the natural gas distribution and transmission business. He has been a board member of the American Public Gas Association and the Energy Solutions Center. He has been on committees in the American Public Gas Association, Texas Gas Association, American Gas Association and Southern Gas Association. He has made presentations for meetings for these organizations. In addition to his industry memberships, he is a member of Rotary and is a John Paul Harris Fellow. His publications include his Master's thesis "Demand for Bus Transit - Ft. Worth Model", and articles published in "Public Utilities Fortnightly", the National Society's of Professional Engineers "Engineering News Record", and the American Society of Civil Engineers "Journal of Management in Engineering". Currently, he is the Director of Utilities for a town in Tennessee, with water, waste water and gas utility operations. He is a fourth generation Texan, with much of his career at locations in Texas, although he has lived in Delaware and now lives in Tennessee. He and his wife live in Smyrna, Tennessee. They have two married daughters and two grandchildren.