July 2, 2008

LIMBA July 4th greeting- Happy Birthday America

By: Ernie Fazio

Every time I see the American flag it produces a feeling of solemnity as opposed to national pride. Yes I feel national pride for the values that it represents, but the solemnity comes from knowing that the flag represents a...

January 15, 2008

Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 2008

By: Ernie Fazio

“You cannot go back to where you have never been”-- I heard that expression recently and it set off a process in my convoluted mind. I had been reflecting on my comments about Martin Luther King, Jr. that I wrote last year.

December 26, 2007

Christmas- Chanukah 2007 Message

By: Ernest Fazio

Where I grew up our fathers would worked from dawn until unconscious, if lucky enough to have a job. Fathers had no desire, or the time to interfere with our baseball games. Little League was probably happening somewhere but not...

November 21, 2007

Thanksgiving Message – 2007

By: Ernie Fazio

There is so much to fear in the world. It’s worse now than it’s ever been. Really? I think the first person to voice that lament was probably Plato.

Yes there is much to fear, and there always has been, and probably always...

September 3, 2007

Labor Day 2007

By: Ernie Fazio

I was thinking recently about the intelligence of labor. I mean physical labor. There is an unspoken belief that physical labor is somehow short of intellectual input. It is truly a silly assumption. But I'm afraid that too many...

July 30, 2007

WALKING WITH KINGS

By: ERNIE FAZIO

In 1961 I had been working for the New York Telephone company for little more than a year. My new assignment was at New York International Airport, or “Idlewild” as it was known locally (now Kennedy International). I was a...

July 4, 2007

Independence Day Message

By: Ernest Fazio

Bob came to work in the same insurance office where I worked. He had been working for TWA as a co-pilot and had been laid off because of the recession. Prior to that short stint with TWA, Bob was a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam....

January 15, 2007

Thoughts on Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Personal Courage

By: By Ernest Fazio – Chief Executive Officer, LIMBA

He was 26 years old when he began to be noticed as a force to be reckoned with. His ascent to prominence was predicated upon the simple notion of articulating and finding justice as he saw it.

November 16, 2006

The Day After – Election Day Plus One 2006

By: By Ernest Fazio, Chief Executive Officer, LIMBA

It is apparent today – one day after the general elections -- that the will of the people is different than that of this administration's. The Democrats had as close a blow-out as anybody could have expected. Frankly I was...

September 5, 2006

Labor Day Message September 4, 2006

By: Ernest Fazio, Executive Director, LIMBA (Long Island, NY business association)

I had the honor and privilege of serving as an official in a labor union when I was 24 years old. It was a low level position to be sure, but it gave me the opportunity to see how a real labor union operates. I was impressed with...