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Al went on to identify ways out of the near poverty
conditions of his youth. He believed the words his
family elders imparted in his mind: that anyone in
America can succeed both personally and professionally
if they are fair with others, choose to study and work
hard. That’s exactly what Al set out to do in
discovering his American Dream.
A proud American Dreamer, Al has experienced an
extensive 38-year career in the media. Among his
accomplishments, he has owned and operated WJSE an FM
radio station that once had few listeners, no ratings
and certainly no advertisers. Under Al’s entrepreneurial
management it spiraled upward to become the highest
rated rock station in the state of New Jersey. Leveraged
between the radio and television jobs along the way Al
became an astute investor and real estate developer. In
total he has either started or partnered in over a dozen
ventures on the journey to his own success. But the
ascension was tougher than he imagined it needed to be.
In television Al is recognized for planning the
expansion of cable television in America through the use
of the first domestic satellite system launched into
space in the early 1980’s. He designed and implemented
the programming distribution plans for the
Who’s Who of cable TV networks including HBO,
Showtime, ESPN, CNN, Disney Channel, etc.
Additionally, Al spearheaded the executive marketing
team that developed and successfully launched the
popular cable networks, Nickelodeon and The Movie
Channel for Warner Communications. He created, produced
and co-hosted the nationally syndicated radio program,
Your Own Success broadcast in over 125 markets
nationally. Also he authored the best-selling
media/marketing book,
On The Air. Al has produced over 100 live
world-class concerts in Atlantic City and Las Vegas
casino’s featuring such artists as Kiss, Stone Temple
Pilots, Lenny Kravitz, Snoop Dogg, Kidd Rock, Michelle
Branch, Korn, Enrique Inglesias, 3 Doors Down,
Nickelback etc. Also he created and produced the award
winning
Broadway on the Boardwalk series at Trump Plaza
Casino in Atlantic City (Parinelloent.com).
Among Al’s current media activities include his company
JSE Computers, a national web design and
search-optimization firm (JSEcomputers.com)
and he is executive producer of his first Independent
movie.
Clear Blue Tuesday is an in-depth look into the
lives of six New York City couples as they explore their
personal aftermath of 9/11 (clearbluetuesday.com).
As Al’s business projects succeeded, he became
disenchanted with the unattractive accoutrements to
success that gradually surrounded him. In essence he
felt the victim of his own success. He began to realize
an unfortunate truth: people became envious if not
jealous and they felt perfectly righteous about
attacking in unimaginable ways. Some associates
including employees became so irritated that they filed
nonsensical and frivolous lawsuits in order to grab some
of the profits rather than earn them. These
disrespectful attacks were not what he contemplated as
he set out to succeed financially in America.
Simultaneously Al began to feel the impact of new
laws that were enforced to punish successful people by
making business growth almost impossible to attain.
Government policies and demands became so burdensome and
expensive that great ideas had to be stifled, in order
to just survive. State and local tax authorities began
to punish the financially successful by demanding higher
and higher tax rates with threats of stiff fines and
penalties for non-compliance. Expensive and difficult
laws and policies were rolled out under the questionable
guise that government agencies were aiding and assisting
business owners. Politically the country set out to
punish those who took brave risks that contributed to
the goodness of society while rewarding those who were
only taking from society. The logic of the business
world was spinning madly out of control and time-honored
doctrine was being turned upside-down.
Soon the bottom 50% of American taxpayers paid only
3.6% of total income taxes while the top 10% paid over
two thirds! This is lunacy! And the ever-accomplice
media agreed that this backwards thinking was acceptable
and questioned those who challenged this lopsided logic.
The print and electronic media has historically leaned
left in its collective thinking but was now leaning so
hard that it was tipping the scales of fairness. When
illogical statements are repeated over and over by
familiar newscasters and reporters, they tend to become
acceptable, especially if the recipient masses greatly
gain from that unfair bias.
College professors contributed to America’s spiral
downward by influencing students with anti-wealth
policies and threats of failing those who didn’t adjust
their thinking accordingly. Courts steadily handed out
penalties so absurd the jury awards became a form of
wealth re-distribution for cases that could not fairly
be won in a free marketplace.
As a successful entrepreneur Al has slogged through
this upside-down logic and has lived what he preaches.
He espouses that the most hated and despised minority in
America has become those who have created a degree of
wealth. And that reality sickens him. As a white male in
America, Al never thought of himself as belonging to any
particular minority, but as a financially successful
person, minority status with all of its inherent
unfairness and ugliness is thrust rapidly on
unsuspecting souls.
Unlike other minorities however, wealthy people have
no place to turn for assistance in righting the wrongs
they are subjected to every day of their lives.
These are only some of
the frustrations that contributed to the birth of
Preserve the American Dream (PAID). Pursuing the
American Dream was a goal and a promise that took one
man born into poverty on a journey of a lifetime.
Defenselessly watching the Dream dissipate and knowing
that there are many others like himself who wish and
deserve to achieve it themselves is reason enough to
give birth to PAID. Without the American Dream we are
all destined to live in mediocrity. The destroyers of
the American Dream, perhaps because of their conviction
that they themselves can’t attain it, want it that way.
Visit Al's Website:
PAID Preserve the American Dream
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