Curriculum Vitae of Joe Cobb
A.B., The University of Chicago, 1966
M.B.A., Graduate School of Business,
University of Chicago, 1977
American Economic Association
National Association of Business Economists
(National Capital Chapter President 1986)
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
* Extensive public speaking and writing experience; over 1,200 articles published.
* Served in the White House and U.S. State Dept. during the Reagan Administration.
* Nine years of senior legislative staff experience with the United States Congress managing federal budget, tax law, international trade, and regulatory issues.
* Adjunct Faculty member, Orange Coast College and Concordia University (retired May 2006).
* Seasoned executive with more than 26 years of experience in management:
Business, government, and non-profit foundations.
Supervised professional management teams, from 3 to 8 professionals including accounting, budgeting, auditing, and human resources functions.
Prepared and administered budgets of up to $14 million annually, for government and non-profit organizations as large as 120 employees.
Established computerized office systems and trained staff on software.
THE WHITE HOUSE & U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT
1982 Deputy Director, White House Office of Policy Information
Staff director, responsible for preparation of briefing papers on immediate-news issues for senior White House staff, reporting to Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Advisor Edwin L. Harper; top-secret security clearance.
1982-83 Economic Advisor, U.S. Mission to the O.A.S., U.S. Department of State
Reporting to Ambassador J. William Middendorf, conducted research and prepared reports on U.S. trade policy with Latin America and the international financial situation with particular focus on Latin American debt; participated in preliminary Administration concept-discussions for NAFTA; top-secret security clearance.
U.S. CONGRESS
1992-93 Chief Economist, Republican Policy Committee, U.S. Senate
Reporting to Senator Don Nickles (R-OK), responsible for publications, briefings, reports, and analyses of economic trends, statistics, and policy. Legislative responsibility for Senate floor consideration of bills reported from Senate Budget, Finance, and Banking Committees as well as Senators floor amendments and conference committee reports; secret security clearance.
1990-91 Staff Director, Congressional Joint Economic Committee
Reporting to Senator William V. Roth (R-DE), responsible for management, organization of Committee hearings, editing of research reports, and the preparation of Minority views for Joint Economic Committee 1991 Annual Report; secret security clearance.
1987-90 Senior Economist, Congressional Joint Economic Committee
Detailed to Senator Steve Symms (R-ID) to work with the Senate Finance Committee and Budget Committee on issues of taxation, trade, and fiscal policy; secret security clearance.
1985-87 Senior Economist, Congressional Joint Economic Committee
Reporting to Senator James Abdnor (R-SD), committee staff economist responsible for monetary theory and policy, international capital markets, and banking regulation; secret security clearance.
1983-85 Economist, Banking Committee,
U.S. House of Representatives
Reporting to Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), prepared research papers for use by the Committee, organized hearings, received constituents on behalf of members.
1983-85 Public Law 99-185, Gold Bullion Coin Act of 1985″
Conceived and drafted legislation to authorize the United States Mint to issue legal tender gold bullion coins as a permanent program of the U.S. Treasury. Gold had been prohibited in 1933. Repeal of prohibition met significant initial opposition, but this legislation ultimately won majority support due to my efforts.
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PROBLEM WITH PENSIONS PT 1by LibertarianYou3,428 views
@dtgoody No, teachers and police are not producers in society. They do not produce any sellable good and for the most part, they do not provide a service that is worthy of their compensation. I am a Marine Corps veteran and I have no problem saying that the military is the same way. They are not producers of wealth and should not be treated as such. They are a necessity in times of war, that is all. The public education system is just a gov't indoctrination system anymore and police...
dlstb 1 week ago
@dtgoody Wait, so your solution for overbearing regulation is to add taxpayer funded incentives to the problem? Way to throw cash on the fire! How about we stop telling people that they need a college degree to teach a 3rd grader how to do basic arithmetic or science?
dlstb 1 week ago
@dtgoody, face the facts. You are acting as a pawn of the same gov't that you so despise. I know it hurts, but how many non-violent offenders do you put behind bars or keep behind bars on a daily basis? I'm not worried about your pension in the least because you should know better than to think that you can work 30 years of your 80 year life and then have the taxpayer support you and your spouse until both of you go into the dirt. BTW, Soc. Sec. is a ponzi, so we all have a problem.
dlstb 1 week ago
The Best thing people can do to protect themselves is to buy Gold & Silver! I am buying lots of Silver because I do not trust my Employer (The State) to honor my pension. I am a Correction Officer who goes to work every day and I have lived up to my end of the bargain for 17 years. I keep the citizens of PA Safe. Fortunately for me I have 11 years before retirement. This will allow me to accumulate a lot more Silver. I'm already up to 1,000 ounces! Either-way I will have a decent retirement.
dtgoody 1 year ago
@helltrackrider
In order to get a teaching job today you must have a College Degree. Regardless of the Federal Guidelines a good teacher is hard to find. There has to be an incentive for a teacher to go out and get $100K in debt with student loans just to teach our out of control youth today. Why go through all this headache when you could just go to any job in the private sector and make the same wages and benefits? There has to be incentives for public service jobs like these.
dtgoody 1 year ago
@helltrackrider
Like I said before I am all for future public employees being placed in 401K type plans. This would put public service in line with the private sector. Just don't default on what has been promised to many good people who have made careers out of public service. Many have stayed because of the benefits and pensions offered as incentives. When times were good people in the private sector made excellent wages and good bonuses. In public service the word Bonus does not exsist.
dtgoody 1 year ago
@dtgoody
Teachers, Cops and ALL public jobs should provide for their own retirement, medical and any other personal needs...like the private sector.
And no, i do not agree with the government requiring larger corporations to provide healthcare plans...any personal necessity and responsibility should be YOUR responsiblity, not another persons or corporations.
helltrackrider 1 year ago
@dtgoody
Teachers today educate kids based on Federal Guidelines...not based on the actual needs of the kid or the market...i mean seriously, what kid in North Florida (where i'm from) should be required to have a "Foreign Language" class...or even a PE Class?...how about Drama?...Phsycology?...Arts and Crafts?...this is not productive education and is far more a burden to the taxpayers than a benefit as a Math, Science, English, History teacher is.
helltrackrider 1 year ago
@dtgoody
Look at the size of the police state and education departments and the expenses they create at presently (including pensions, retirement, benefits, buildings and material expenses)...their overall cost to the private sector (via taxation) drastically outweighs their production or benefits...
Now, if you want to provide for teacher compettition in the private market and reduce the police size by removing unecessary, harmless events as "crimes"...we could have a more just society
helltrackrider 1 year ago
@helltrackrider
So Cops and Teachers are not actual producers to Society?
Do Cops not put their lives on the line so that you can have a Society?
Do Teachers not educate our kids into Society?
Pensions plans are manditory for Teachers and Cops.
They are forced to pay in the Pension plan as a condition of Employment.
Now we should just all turn our backs on them because you don't want to pay taxes?
dtgoody 1 year ago