Event: A Conversation with Ali Velshi and Richard Vague

At a Citizen members event at the Fitler Club, the MSNBC host and the philanthropist/businessman talked about the economy, politics and the goodness of Americans

Event: A Conversation with Ali Velshi and Richard Vague

At a Denizen members outcome at the Fitler Club, the MSNBC host and the philanthropist/businessman talked about the economy, politics and the goodness of Americans

Jul. 18, 2019

Towards the cease of an 60 minutes-long conversation with MSNBC host Ali Velshi at the Fitler Social club this calendar week, Philly businessman/philanthropist/author Richard Vague had some rousing words most the country he has studied and traveled across extensively: "We are America," he said. "We can do many things."

During the Citizen members event, Vague, most recently writer of A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Fiscal Crises, and Velshi, a Citizen board member, touched on some of the most pressing issues of our times: the economy; personal debt; political credo; and the 2022 Presidential Election. Vague, who Citizen editor Larry Platt described as a "modern-day Ben Franklin," delved into research he has conducted about the causes, and preventative measures, for economic downturns of the last two centuries, and into middle class Americans' areas of business organization, heading into another ballot. (To wit: No one cares about Pres. Trump's tax returns; everyone cares about their employer-provided health intendance.)

In a fourth dimension when it can be hard to experience optimistic about America, Vague provided an antidote for the simplest of reasons: "I'grand non discouraged because all of the folks in our groups, Republicans and Democrats, were terrific people."

Listen to the conversation below, and scroll down for photos from the event:

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