Background and Profile of the Author
Mr. Howard J. Gunn (1945) is an Information Age business executive, worker, and author.
Howard was the third son born to his GI Generation (1880–1920) parents. He is a member of the Silent Generation (1921–1945). The Silent Generation joined with the GI Generation to become the greatest voter block in history.
The GI and Silent Generation voters fulfilled Lincoln’s principles of democracy — of the people, for the people, by the people.
Their votes transformed the nation from the Gilded Age plutocracy model for the wealthy to the democracy model, protecting the welfare of citizens and promoting the welfare of the people.
Their elected string of Democratic Party congresses and progressive presidents pulled the country out of the Great Depression and created new federal agencies to fulfill the constitutional mandate to promote the general welfare of the people.
The new democratic government’s work effort and legislative votes also pulled the nation out of the poverty model of the Gilded Age that led to the Great Depression.
The two voting groups also helped win World War II and created the new middle class while repairing the working class. Their new model increased the average lifespan of people by 25 years between 1900 and 1960. It also reduced the Gilded Age poverty level from 90% in 1900 to only 15% in 1960.
Their evolutionary model also helped save Korea and build a highway system.
Their effort also created the fabulous 1950s, the rebuilding of Western Europe into democracies, and helped to create the new Asian democracies.
Howard grew up with the Baby Boomers and Generation Xers in Cleveland, Ohio.
He saw their generation become the worst voters in history, with Nixon as the first step into mediocrity.
Five Republican Congresses, five Republican Presidents, and five Republican recessions in fifty years is their record of mediocrity and the legacy of voodoo economics to MAGA.
Their Republican Party’s congressional voting record shows they also produced five tax cuts for the rich, along with the five recessions that the tax cuts produced.
They also get economic credit for the massive national debt they produced and the school loan and personal debt debacle they hung on the kids and the people.
The average lifespan in the United States has stagnated in the period and is now below that of most industrialized nations.
Poverty rates also stagnated during the period.
Howard’s father, a Vice President in a local Teamsters Union, remained connected to the working class.
His stay-at-home mother worked Christmases to pick up spending money for the holidays.
The rest of the time, she spent raising her children with chores, homework evaluations, and social engagements at nursing homes and senior communities.
Howard also attended civic and union meetings with his father.
He heard first-hand working-class people talking about civil rights, worker rights, discrimination, worker exploitation, desegregation, union protection, and violence.
Other meetings where he was listening to his father explaining Medicare, Medicaid, the new community college, voting rights, and the Great Society vision at civic meetings across Ohio were also training a new voter as well.
Howard graduated from Benedictine High School in Cleveland, Ohio.
He worked his way through college (at night school) and became the first in his family to earn a higher education degree.
Howard earned an AA in Economics from Cuyahoga Community College (1968).
He also earned his BBA in Labor Relations in 1971 and an MBA in Management from Cleveland State University in 1974.
While in college, Howard worked for the Ohio Bell Telephone Company. He held union jobs as a supply man and became a cable splicer and network engineer while in school.
He also served as a Payroll Supervisor, the Continuous Property Record Supervisor, and the Plant Extensions Manager for Akron, Canton, and Youngstown, Ohio.
Computers, software, and the digitization of the telephone network were Howard’s specialties at Ohio Bell.
He helped them plan, install, and operate their first mainframe computer, their first PDP minicomputers, and their first Stored Program Controlled switching machines.
Howard left the telephone company and headed to Silicon Valley to join the microprocessor Digital Revolution in 1976.
His fresh, modern, new-technology focus began as the Product Line Manager at TRW Space Systems in the Vidar Division.
In his new product line management role, Howard helped TRW produce the first-ever microprocessor-controlled digital telephone switches and one of the earliest digital radio systems in the world.
Howard’s new product development career included roles at other high-tech companies, including GTE Automatic Electric, NEC America, Gandalf Technologies, and Digital Switch Corporation.
Howard also served as a VP in executive roles at Gandalf Technologies, GTE Network Systems, Alcatel Network Systems, and Global Broadcasting Corporation.
His job assignments included serving on the board of directors of GTE Automatic Electric, Alcatel North America, and Gandalf Technologies.
Howard built an impressive, leading-edge technological record along the way.
As a Bell Labs–trained switch and transmission engineer, he soon moved over to a data processing employee role.
He even took part in Ohio Bell’s first-ever mainframe computer and minicomputer deployments.
Howard watched the first-ever microprocessor-controlled switch make America’s first-ever long-distance digital telephone call in early 1978.
Mr. Gunn was also the first VP of Marketing for new digital key telephone systems and digital PBXs in America.
Howard helped GTE buy the Telenet Company and hire Internet co-founder Dr. Larry Roberts.
That purchase enabled them to drive the digital data market and the conversion of Arpanet into the Internet, as a new commercial digital reality exploded in America.
If you ever had a modem, multiplexer, data switch, or server farm, you may have used one of the first-to-market modems, multiplexers, and digital data switches.
Howard introduced many of the products to the new Internet market through Gandalf Technologies.
He also helped Alcatel use its new digital codecs from the Barcelona Olympics demonstration to make the first US-based high-definition television broadcast in America with Sony Studios.
Mr. Gunn’s first book, The Principles of Traffic and Network Design, hit the market in 1986.
The goal of the book was to explain the new digital ISDN transmission services and new Internet service network engineering concepts to the first generation of digital and Internet engineers.
He wrote The Basics of IPTV for the International Engineering Consortium.
The intent was to help engineers understand the new high-bandwidth social media streaming and the new services like YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn that would soon come to the Internet market.
Although a part of the new Information Age, Howard also saw firsthand the subtle downsides of modern digital communications.
Yale termed the downside problem as “The Misinformation Age” and the greatest threat to democracy in 2019, with a book on the subject.
The Internet for connectivity and service was already in decline from the Misinformation Age issues.
It was also being used to deliver propaganda, gaslighting material, misleading information, and even conditioned behavior training (brainwashing), according to Yale professional insights.
Yale was correct, according to Howard and his papers that were published through ResearchGate.
Misinformation, brainwashing, fake news, fraud, phishing, identity theft, and scamming were soon part of your everyday exposure on the Internet in the twenty-first century.
Howard authored “The 21st Century Voter Guide to Candidate Assessment,” in 2016.
He hoped to help voters understand the messages and propaganda that candidates and political parties were giving them.
Voters obviously missed the point in the 2016 election.
Voters elected a reality TV show host with a dark economic and personal behavior background to lead the Republican Congress in 2017.
His team replaced Obama’s miracle recovery tenure in office after the Republican Party’s Great Recession (2007-2009).
Trump’s new administration and its new view of the general welfare would try to eliminate Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA).
They tried to lower the quality of healthcare for the people sixty times in four years.
Although they failed to repeal the ACA, the Republican Party leadership passed another tax cut for the wealthy and generated another Republican Party recession in Trump’s first term in office.
Howard’s next book, “How to Save the Nation from Old Conservative Lies” in 2024, debunked the plutocratic message and neo-Nazi propaganda/gaslighting models and misinformation broadcasting on social media.
His newest book, “Voodoo Economics to MAGA, and Pillaging of the Working Class,” details Yale’s recognized threat and the political neo-Nazi threat coming from the Republican Party.
The new book focuses on their propaganda machine and the Voodoo economics and supply-side model.
The voodoo efforts focus on union busting, stagnating wages, unloading cyber-securities and junk bonds, pushing hedge funds, and generating another recession to loot the middle class of their limited wealth.
Lost homes, lost farms, lost jobs, poor healthcare, mediocre schools, and a shrinking middle class are the clear residual signs of voodoo economics and MAGA tax cuts for the rich.
The 2025 confirmation of the latest tax cut for the rich and the winding down of democracy’s advantages for the people also continue unabated.
Over the next decade, they cut Medicaid, the healthcare for the poor, by over a trillion dollars.
They also cut an estimated $600 billion from Medicare, the healthcare services to seniors and those that are disabled.
The Big Beautiful Bill also ended public broadcasting, denied minimum wage increases, and offered no safeguard against cyber-currency scams.
It also embraces the new consumer tariffs, which were implemented with tax cuts for the wealthy to empower the next recession.
The new book goes through the residual symptoms of Voodoo economics and its new MAGA brand of tariffs, tax cuts, and trickle-down misinformation for the winding down of the democracy.
The private DOGA ravaging of the government workforce and America First international tariff conflicts are like the Reagan firing of 11,000 workers and American Exceptionalism policies that caused similar frictions.
Although Howard’s newest book focuses on today and the future, the book also traces the historic plutocrat versus democracy conflict since our Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Our traditional “for the benefit of the governed people” model remains exposed to the anti-federalist plutocracy model of the wealthy and the Gilded Age model of worker exploitation.
The political parties, over time, have been on the same side, opposite sides, and opposing sides in recent years.
Their political search for votes and control of the state and federal government is endless.
Our lack of voter understanding of the political conflict and democracy decline issues of the last fifty years of conflict between wealth accumulation and the for-the-people model is perplexing.
Previous voter actions in the previous elections have also been confusing.
Selecting the right candidates and avoiding the propaganda pitfalls, the plutocracy economic model, and recessions is your role as a voter.
Over the last fifty years, voters have often failed, according to historical reviews.
They voted in a Republican-led government that produced a continuous string of tax cuts for the wealthy, recessions, foreclosed homes, healthcare bankruptcies, and stagnant wages.
Your parents and grandparents were often part of the crowd.
Some supported nationalism, discrimination, White Supremacy, and voted for the Republican Presidents and Congresses that brought on the plutocrat recessions.
Do not hate them, pity them, or excuse them. History is history. Just do not follow them into the mediocrity they produced.
This book explores the complex role of government in increasing wages and promoting the general welfare of the people while helping businesses create profits and happy stockholders.
The book also includes the unique impact of Voodoo economics and MAGA on the working class.
History shows how to create a middle class, reduce poverty, improve healthcare, and produce profitable results while benefiting business owners, without harming Wall Street or the plutocrats.
Voodoo economics and MAGA have shown how to produce recessions, reduce government services, and pillage the working class.
Its authoritarian and non-consumer efforts to suppress opposition violate the constitutional principles and its balance of power design.
The Republican Party has failed the federal government-for-the-people model over the last fifty years.
They focused on tax cuts for the wealthy and the accumulation of wealth through Wall Street control of government.
The Party also ignores the educational and healthcare needs of the working class and the poor.
Over the last fifty years, the Republican Party has produced five recessions that loot the middle-class wealth while pillaging the entire working class and wage earners.
Their programs have increased the number of wealthy people through recessions, looting the middle class and stagnant wages, pillaging the working class and poor.
The Republican Congress deficit spending has raised the cost of consumer services and facilitates the mediocre red-state education and healthcare services.
Please enjoy the material and remember that your quality of life and your posterity depend on your vote.
If you are a middle-class, rich, or working-class loyal minion of the current plutocracy, remember the new jovial voting model from your competition is “vote blue no matter who.”
Enjoy the book and let me know what you think of the recovery option and potential survivability of democracy in the current environment.
You can contact me at howardgunn.com.