AUTHOR'S  PROFILE

             A TALE OF FIVE CAREERS.

    In 1957, with a freshly minted engineering
    degree from the GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF
    TECHNOLOGY, the first career began in
    Applied Research on liquid propellant rocket
    engines, at the NAVAL ORDNANCE TEST
    STATION (NOTS) at CHINA LAKE,
    CALIFORNIA.  Mr. Williamson designed and
    tested some exotic rocket engines, including
    the first rocket powered vehicle ( on display
    at the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE) to achieve a
    soft vertical landing.    Of his time at NOTS,
    Mr. Williamson said “They let me build and
    test all those rocket engines and it didn’t cost
    me a dime.  They even paid me a salary”.

    The second career was as Project Engineer
    (Mechanical), for LTV CORPORATION (the
    prime contractor) on a program to develop a
    very accurate surface to surface missile.

    When the missile was deployed, Mr.
    Williamson began a third career by
    establishing and operating a Suzuki
    Motorcycle dealership.

    Twenty years as Chief Engineer for a small
    manufacturing company, MASTER
    PNEUMATIC-DETROIT, Inc.  was the fourth
    career.  Designing many products and
    receiving several patents, Mr. Williamson
    retired in 1998.

    It wasn't all work, Mr. Williamson was an avid
    SCUBA diver logging over 700 dives.

    In the summer of 2006, he became concerned
    about our country’s future.  No one seemed
    to understand the relationship between
    freedom and prosperity.  Power hungry
    politicians were seducing citizens with
    promises of unearned wealth and security
    but delivering poverty and oppression. At 75,
    the love for America caused Mr. Williamson to
    start a fifth career, as the writer of    

         “21st CENTURY COMMON SENSE”.  

    Will this book convince you of the peril of  
    accepting the empty promises of unearned
    wealth and security?   Will you help save our
    Republic by choosing  FREEDOM AND
    PROSPERITY or will you dismiss  “21st
    CENTURY COMMON SENSE”  as the ravings
    of a senile old man.  

                            YOUR CALL!
SOFT LANDING VEHICLE IN FLIGHT
IN EARLY 1960s.  

BUILT AND TESTED BY THE AUTHOR
TO PROVE THE FEASIBILITY OF
MAKING A SOFT VERTICAL LANDING
WITH A ROCKET POWERED VEHICLE
FELTON WILLIAMSON JR.  AKA "TOBY"
AUTHOR OF
"21st CENTURY COMMON SENSE" and "COMMON SENSE = THE WAY BACK"
AUTHOR'S BACKGROUND PAGE
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    A WORD FROM TOBY

    Why would an old retired engineer decide to spend 60 to 80 hours a week for a year to write a book defending freedom?

     For years I have been appalled at the encroachment of the politicians on our freedom and feared that America was very
    close to the reversal of the Revolution which produced our freedom and the greatest economic engine the world has ever
    known.  Something has to be done!   I had to do something!

    As any good engineer would do, I examined the options available to correct the problem.  The option selected was to write a
    book that proved freedom created prosperity and tyranny destroyed prosperity and created poverty.  This is not the book I
    started to write on September 6, 2008.  I just thought the situation was bad when I started the research for “21st CENTURY
    COMMON SENSE”.  The problem is much worse than I could ever have imagined.  Just as I expected, the research proved
    the government meddling in the economy had stifled our economic growth and created poverty instead of prosperity.   As
    grievous and as devastating to the economy as the “WANNABE PEERS’” actions have been, the economic consequences
    are not the greatest danger to the republic.

     Our greatest danger is the “WANNABE PEERS’” use of the bureaucracy, the
    Antitrust Laws and the Internal Revenue Service to punish political dissent,
    coerce political support from successful business persons and reward their
    political cronies.

    For the last 130 years, the government has used its monopoly on force to redistribute wealth from the producer to the
    politically powerful, with a few crumbs left over to buy the votes of the poverty stricken.   These government initiatives have
    also increased the cost of all the goods and services you buy.   This meddling in the economy has created a series of
    economic crises that have been used to justify more successful assaults on our liberty.

    Each success has enhanced the ability of the “WANNABE PEERS” to punish
    political dissent and reward their political cronies.  We cannot even start to
    regain our freedom and prosperity until the use of government force to punish
    political dissent and reward their political cronies is ended.    

    Severe economic crises converted some of the ailing democracies of the 20th CENTURY into dictatorships.   If the current
    proposals (CAP AND TRADE and the HEALTH CARE CONTROL PLAN) are implemented, a severe economic crisis will
    result that will make the Great Depression of the 1930’s seem like the "GOOD OLD DAYS".   What will be result of such an
    economic crisis?

    The American Revolution will be history
    and KING GEORGE III will have the last
    laugh.