The MFGgear Column

by John Gardner  Hollywood loves to congratulate itself with endless award ceremonies exalting their creative oblations to the gods of culture. Silicon Valley is fawned over by the media and the idea of unicorns is now sullied by association not with the magical...

by Brian Imbler  Turn the clock back to 1990 when the Communist regimes in Europe collapsed and there was an apparent end to the decades long totalitarian big government, anti-God experiment. To those living at that time, did you ever imagine that a...

by John Gardner  American immigration policies in the late 1800’s such as the Immigration Act of 1882 and the Alien Contract Labor law prohibited certain laborers from coming to America, specifically blocking the entry of “idiots, lunatics, convicts, and...

by Thomas Franklin  Being a former law enforcement officer, I had witnessed many years of my colleagues perform admirably in life-threatening situations, but were subsequently eviscerated in the mainstream media. The media tends to portray the predators as victims,...

by Anonymous Patriot  The famed author Andrew Smith once said, “People fear what they don’t understand and they hate what they can’t conquer.” I see and face fear every day in the workplace. No, I do not work in a coal mine. I am not a police officer or a...

by Brian Imbler, CEO The Sales Bridge  What are the hidden costs of offshore sourcing? 1)  The Unquantifiable cost of stolen intellectual property and product replication(China's IP theft greatest transfer of wealth in history) 2)  Cost of dealing with...

by Brian Imbler, CEO The Sales Bridge  As a business owner who has spent three decades in the contract manufacturing service industry (primarily in the US while briefly once dipping my toe into China sourcing before quickly pulling it back out), I have made...