Knowing Thomas Wolf

[GeneCC]

From his own Biography....

Thomas W. Wolf was nominated as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue in January 2007 by Governor Edward G. Rendell and confirmed on April 25, 2007.

Wolf was appointed by the Governor to serve on the 12-member Pennsylvania Business Tax Reform Commission, which issued a report in 2004 recommending changes to make business taxes fairer, simpler and more competitive with other states.

Wolf last served as Chairman of the Board and President of the Wolf Organization, Inc., a family-owned building materials business based in York, Pa. The Wolf Organization distributes building materials through 30 branches located along the eastern seaboard. It was ranked among the top 50 Best Places to Work in PA in 2006.

Wolf earned his doctorate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981, and his master’s degree in philosophy from the University of London in 1978. He graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972.

Wolf has a long history as a volunteer for many community and charitable organizations. He has served as President of Better York, Inc.; Chair of the Board of Trustees for York College of Pa.; Board Member of the Keystone Research Center and the Pennsylvania Business Roundtable; Chair of the Lancaster York Heritage Region, York County Chamber of Commerce, United Way of York County, WITF, Inc., and The York County Community Foundation.

Wolf was born November 17, 1948 in York, Pa.

http://web.archive.org/web/200708110...6&Q=67924&tx=1

[GeneCC]

The man is well educated, as is Charles Schumer (Harvard Law) and Barack Obama (Harvard Law).

Having a very good education is not enough. You have to respect the People and the system of Government which has stood the test of time.

Example - the only US President with a PhD was Woodrow Wilson. He popularized the idea of a "Living Constitution".

In this 1912 presidential campaign speech Woodrow Wilson, the governor of New Jersey, frankly describes his principles for the revolutionary reform of America. Wilson seeks no less than to sever America from the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Wilson’s speech distills a distinguished career of Progressive scholarship that would replace the old Constitution of individual rights and the separation of powers with an evolving, “living Constitution” of growing and virtually unlimited powers.

After all, Wilson remarks, Americans have never been “stand-patters” who resist change. And “Progress is the word that charms their ears and stirs their hearts.” Wilson would therefore “like to make the young gentlemen of the rising generation as unlike their fathers as possible.” His speech outlines the political education for these young men: they must reject their fathers’ ways and the Founding Fathers’ ideas, thereby leading to a renewed America. Wilson, like other early Progressives, was clear in his contempt for the “conservatism” of the Constitution.

Wilson maintains that both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution have outlived their usefulness—and their now outmoded truths. The scientific facts, Wilson coldly concludes, call for cooperation among the parts of government, not checks against one another.

Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All the progressives ask or desire is permission—in an era when “development,” “evolution,” is the scientific word—to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle….

Wilson’s Darwinian constitutionalism means that an evolving human nature wipes away the need for the protection of individual rights by the separation of powers. Liberated from the old constraints demanded by an unchanging and flawed human nature, a government of now unlimited powers is unleashed to deal with the new political and economic conditions of corporations and political bosses.

Wilson laments that “Some citizens of this country have never got beyond the Declaration of Independence” ; they are not fighting today’s tyrants. The Declaration of Independence was an “eminently practical document…not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; not a theory of government, but a program of action.” His “new declaration of independence” enables Americans to fight the tyranny of “special interests,” of political machines and “selfish business.” Whatever the ills of the early 20th century, one might ask Wilson whether replacing the Declaration and the Constitution would not lead to even worse evils.

http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/...at-is-progress


Having a PhD is nice. Having respect for this Country and its Principles is better.

[ALS]

And the guy he replaced at the dept of Rev. was an avid anti-gunner, Greg Fait. You're welcome I was a one man war machine that got that guy replaced in my district when he was my representative.

[Berks_Iraq_Vet]

With today's diploma mill mentality, education/ degrees do not equate to intelligence/ abilities. Look at all the Ivy League douchebags in government......

[LBaker]

I doubt you'll ever see this from the wolf...

[Phillygunguy]

Big deal going to an Ivy league school nowadays Shows you have money, and are a progressive liberal with a sense of entitlement

[qmcorps]

I don't care what his level of "education is, or where he acquired it from"; He is a Communist. If you don't believe me; use this formula.

The first ten Amendments to the US Constitution and the 10 pillars/planks of Communism, side by side. Take the platform/promises of the political candidate of your choosing and match the platform, with these documents.

This compare and contrast will indicate the leanings of said candidate. Pretty damn simple*.

*Many Repubs are Communist using this formula. Vote wisely.

[GeneCC]

And the guy he replaced at the dept of Rev. was an avid anti-gunner, Greg Fait. You're welcome I was a one man war machine that got that guy replaced in my district when he was my representative.

Thank you for your service, Sir!!!

[JenniferG]

Most of these guys with the high falutin' deegrees got plenty of smarts but don't have a lick of sense.