The consulting activities of Heffner and Associates, Ltd. often revolve around Workforce and Economic Development. Jon Heffner has been involved with these issues in a variety of capacities for over 40 years.
This section includes both helpful information and unique opinions on critical topics pertaining to such Development. An overriding theme is that an individual’s acquisition/retention of appropriate employment and financial self sufficiency is key to all aspects of his/her life and it is the lack of such acquisition that is the major factor in destructive behavior.
Incentives for Business and Industry (Updated September 30, 2011):
True Compassion (Breaking the Cycle)
"...While stopping for gas in a small run down village, I spotted a very overweight young woman leaning up against what appeared to be her pick up truck. Emblazoned across the windshield in 8" letters was her (probably handpicked) moniker – "The Redneck Bitch"..."
"...There are many different and conflicting approaches to fighting poverty and its related consequences. A major variable theme in all approaches is the concept of compassion. Those who espouse personal responsibility are often criticized for lacking such compassion. Those at the opposite end of the philosophical spectrum are labeled as "bleeding hearts".
Our policies concerning poverty have historically been a result of these conflicting forces with the increasing tendency to create dependency in the name of compassion. Although I would like to believe that dependency creation is an unintended consequence of liberal compassion run amuck (which is certainly true very often) it is also clear that such creation is a purposeful political method of gaining power and control..." Read on >>
