About Ordinary Joe

Rob Wickes, author of The Myth America Pageant, is an Ordinary Joe. He lives in Small Town, USA. His office is, literally, on Main Street. He knows what it is like to make payroll, pay suppliers, and deal with rising costs, contracts, multitudes of taxes, and mountains of regulations. He’s just another baby boomer who grew up in a decent, healthy environment, and was given a good set of values with which to face life’s problems and challenges. His chances and opportunities were only ordinary. Not rich. Not poor. Just in the Goldilocks middle. Nothing special. No special talents. No special advantages. No special breaks. Just the common sense guy next door. Just an ordinary guy.

With ordinary frustration. The longer he was in business, and the more he worked at raising his own family, the more baffled he became with the changes he saw happening in America: A nation which became great because of its love of individual liberty seemed to be making an ever-greater effort to erase it. And so this Ordinary Joe did something a bit extra-ordinary: He made it a priority to study government, political science, history, economics, philosophy, sociology, and human behavior so he could understand why the supposedly smart wizards who run the country seem to do so many, well, stupid things.

Now he wants you to understand. Using a revelation he calls “common sense,” Rob wants to tell you how the whole business of politics and government really messes with ordinary people's individual lives. His solutions are both simple and surprising.

Read The Myth America Pageant. Then you'll finally understand why things are the way they are. And, you'll want to give a copy to everyone you know.