Full Time–Work and the Meaning of Life

What is the proper Balance Between Work and Family Life?

Bahnsen’s Groundbreaking Book argues that Work is the Meaning of Life!

Author and Chief Investment Officer David Bahnsen has come out with a groundbreaking book that attempts to paint the proper picture between work-family balance.   In his book, “Full Time”, Bahnsen argues that work is the meaning of life.   It offers a theological argument that rejects the crucial errors that have led to such a low view of work today.   The book dares to suggest that we have unhappy people not because we are working too much, but rather that we have unhappy people because they have been cut off from the purpose and earned success that work offers.

Our society faces a crisis of alienation rooted in a deterioration of purpose, community and dignity.   Through an understanding of work that is properly formed, we discover our purpose, we create community, and we reveal our God-given dignity.   We ignore and even disparage work to our personal and collective peril.

Bahnsen asserts in the book that God made the human race in His image as a creator, producer, and innovator—making us co-creators with Him.   The modern social construct says work is something we do that we will not have to do it any more, envisioning a thirty-year vacation or a “second half of significance” as the ultimate aim.  That self-defeating idea and systems of thought underlie this destructive vision and is the target of this book.

Full Time is for those who need to hear the good news:  we are made to work, make, serve; success is significant, purpose and meaning area available to all because a life fully committed to work is a life well-lived.    Join David Bahnsen as he discusses his important book.   David will be talking from 7:30-8:20 PM.

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EmpowerUAmerica.org’s Managing Board Member Dan Regenold brings us up to date with his discussion about the Federal Debt and Deficit.   Dan has been providing us a regular update on the Budget of the US Government since 2015.

Tonight:  Dan will give us the results of our Federal Budget in 2024 and bring us up to date on the myriad of programs proposed by our Presidential candidates.    How much will Trump’s programs cost like:  Lowering the Corporate Income Tax from 21% to 15%?  How about ending taxes on overtime?   The much discussed tax on tips?  And for seniors, the End of Taxation on Social Security Benefits?

Kamala Harris has her own programs like raising corporate tax rates to 28%, raising taxes on capital gains, expanding the child tax credit and expanding aid for senior care.  How much will major increases in affordable housing and lowering prescript drug cost?

You’ll walk away from tonight’s class with a crib sheet on where we are at and if it is possible to fix this debt/deficit problem.  The United States is NOW  SPENDING 50% more that we take in.  Is such a path sustainable?   Is there a fix that would work?   Join Dan from 7:10-7:30 and learn.

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Speaker Bio

David L. Bahnsen is the founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, a national private wealth management firm with offices in Newport Beach, New York City, Bend, Nashville, Minneapolis, Austin, Phoenix, and West Palm Beach, managing over $5.7 billion in client assets.

Prior to launching The Bahnsen Group, he spent eight years as a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and six years as a Vice President at UBS. He is consistently named one of the top financial advisors in America by Barron’s, Forbes, and the Financial Times. He is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, and Fox Business, and is a regular contributor to National Review. He hosts the popular weekly podcast, Capital Record, dedicated to a defense of free enterprise and capital markets.

Bahnsen is the author of several best-selling books including Crisis of Responsibility: Our Cultural Addiction to Blame and How You Can Cure It (2018), The Case for Dividend Growth: Investing in a Post-Crisis World (2019), and There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths (2021). His newest book, Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life, was released in February 2024.

David’s true passions include anything related to USC football, the financial markets, politics, and Chinese food. His ultimate passions are his wife of 22+ years, Joleen, their children, Mitchell, Sadie, and Graham, and the life they’ve created together on both coasts.

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DanRegenold  is a lover of Liberty and enjoys speaking to EmpowerU classes about subjects he is passionate about.  Recently he has discussed:  Milton Friedman, Saul Alinsky, D-Day, The Deficit, Public Education, Winston Churchill, President Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Sowell, Sam Adams and Pearl Harbor at EmpowerU Classes.     For Dan’s full biography–Click Here.