THE AVERAGE JOE

Series produced by Joseph Carraro

Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT 

The Average Joe offers political commentaries on various current topics.

Senator Joe Carraro adds a voice of an Average Joe with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

Joe has the capability to understand politics while analyzing human behavior, business, the economy and a host of other issues. He has been a State Senator for 20 years, with an MBA and a PhD; been a stockbroker, financial analyst; and has even owned Italian restaurants.

He's worked on Wall Street and delivered pizzas to Main Street. He understands the value of small business, and the influence of big business.

Joe Carraro is an author, lecturer, and playwright. He has taught Organizational and Human Behavior and Professional Ethics in graduate school and championed the causes of the developmentally disabled. He was Chairman of a Multi-Billion dollar Investment Oversight Committee and founded Project Share, a private homeless feeding program. He’s a former acquaintance of Hugo Chavez and Ronald Reagan. As a Senator, he learned by listening and asking questions and can tell you what politicians are really saying when they speak. He can also tell you why men and women act the way they do and why our country is on the verge of an economic collapse. Carraro understands the needs of people and the inefficiencies of government. He doesn't just talk about problems; he uses his experiences to help others formulate solutions so that we are able to inform those that govern, that their power is derived from the consent of the governed. THAT'S US!

And Carraro is always learning from his experiences. During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he was responsible for getting the gasoline needed to run the generators in New Orleans, and was then tasked with mopping floors in the emergency trauma center, taking those morbidly obese to the bathroom, and eventually being placed in charge of the psychiatric triage. He knows what it takes to get the job done, whether dealing with the head of a country or cleaning up someone else’s mess.

This Average Joe has been fighting for those in our society who seem to have no one representing them in government, business, or the media. It's those who are too busy trying to make ends meet, who cannot achieve the power and influence necessary to have their point of view both expressed and implemented. Joe will have their voice heard.
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Senator Joe Carraro adds a voice of an Average Joe with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

Joe has the capability to understand politics while analyzing human behavior, business, the economy and a host of other issues. He has been a State Senator for 20 years, with an MBA and a PhD; been a stockbroker, financial analyst; and has even owned Italian restaurants.

He's worked on Wall Street and delivered pizzas to Main Street. He understands the value of small business, and the influence of big business.

Joe Carraro is an author, lecturer, and playwright. He has taught Organizational and Human Behavior and Professional Ethics in graduate school and championed the causes of the developmentally disabled. He was Chairman of a Multi-Billion dollar Investment Oversight Committee and... Show full description


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We need to change the qualifications for running for President as well as Congress. Obviously the candidates we've had in the past were not the cho...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:29
Caption: SENATOR CARRARO IS AN AVERAGE JOE
As a former state senator for 20 years, an executive committee member of the National Energy Council, an energy consultant, a stock broker and fina...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2011
  • Length: 18:40
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We need to move forward to find a cause for Autism without fear to question and innovate and just maybe get closer to understanding what we're deal...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 12:41
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Turning off the water pumps in the Central California Valley to protect the smelt is criminal and will destroy our nations agriculture.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:53
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Senator Joe Carraro discusses how the economy is being driven to ruin by people who keep screwing up and getting ahead.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:21
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses the risks of continuing to antagonize and not engage with Venezuela and the rest of South America while Russia and Cuba cozy ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:46
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
The threat of Chinese predatory pricing on the agricultural industry--specifically how it has hurt California-grown garlic sales--as a precursor to...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:07
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro describes how even from the start, the Department of Homeland Security was created with the intention of grabbing more power for the go...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:08
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro asks: If the Republicans are so sure of their ideas, why are they so afraid to debate them with President Obama and the Democrats?

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 01:50
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro proposes that if Congress is really representative of the people, then its members will give up its overpaid salaries and benefits and ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 07:46
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses the failures of how just funding more unemployment insurance doesn't fix our unemployment problem, and the government needs t...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:40
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses his first meeting with Ronald Reagan, and how he was the only true small businessman in the then-governor's small business ro...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:28
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Joe Carraro discusses how the rich and powerful got richer and more powerful under Bush and now Obama as they have colluded to enrich the elites in...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:48
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Big business is as much of a threat to our livelihoods as out of control government, when they can do what they want and steal from us, and get awa...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:02
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses the fall of Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street firm he worked for as a stockbroker. He compares the greed and ineptitude of Thain...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:09
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
NEPOTISM HAPPENS EVERYWHERE AT ALL LEVELS SO THAT EVENTUALLY EVERYONE BECOMES INVOLVED EITHER IN ITS PERPETUATION OR ITS COVER-UP. IT'S PREVALENT I...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 09:16
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
State Senator Joe Carraro meets State Senator Barack Obama. His impression back then plays true to today.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:32
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Obamacare was a program put together by and for special interests, without eliminating any of the inefficiencies and corruption that are already pr...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 08:58
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Lobbyists have corrupted both major political parties to give us the current health care and financial systems we have, and why we have never had t...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 06:46
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Economic recovery efforts pushed by President Obama and Congress are simply another attempt to throw good money after bad. More importantly, he sho...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 06:09