About Us
The Real State of the Union, LLC is dedicated to providing objective, comprehensive, and reliable information that will improve the public’s understanding of our economy and related issues, reduce the opportunity for politicians to misrepresent the facts, increase government accountability, and encourage informed debate — all of which will help achieve our goals of rebuilding our economy, restoring our government’s fiscal integrity, and reclaiming our democracy for the people it is supposed to serve.
The Real State of the Union is a private corporation not affiliated with any other political, government, news, or commercial organization. We are a grassroots movement that gets its funding from personal donations, membership fees, sales of materials and services, and grants from foundations.
We accept no donations from political organizations, businesses, lobbyists or anyone who wants to influence what we say to serve their own interests.
Our goals are ambitious, but realistic. Achieving them will take dedication and hard work, but constant effort has put large wheels in motion in the past and it can happen again. As Margaret Mead said:
“Never doubt that a small group of committed people
can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that has.”
About the Founder - Will Kaydos
Will Kaydos started investigating our economy several years ago, because he kept hearing politicians from both parties make statements about our economy that he knew weren’t true or that he questioned.
Determined to find out the whole truth about our economy, Will applied his experience in analyzing and improving business performance to identifying how our economy is performing, its good points, and its bad points.
It wasn’t long before he realized our economy is in much worse condition than he imagined, the economic future for most Americans is in jeopardy, and that strong action is required on many fronts to reverse our economic meltdown.
In Thin Ice – and Melting: Why Our Economy is Failing and How We Can Stop the Meltdown, Will identifies where our economy is broken and then recommends a series of bold steps we must take to rebuild our economy, repair our government’s shaky finances, and reclaim our government for the people it is supposed to serve – all Americans, not just a privileged few.
Will has extensive experience as a manager, executive and consultant in operations management, performance measurement, strategic planning and finance. He has launched missiles at Cape Canaveral, designed complex management systems, built a large manufacturing organization from the ground up, and improved quality and productivity in many industries, including automobiles, furniture, textiles, heavy equipment, medical supplies, mining, retailing, and government agencies.
His earlier books, Exceeding Expectations; Measuring, Managing, and Maximizing Performance; and Operational Performance Measurement: Improving Total Productivity have been praised by prominent executives and managers around the world.
Besides leading The Real State of the Union, Will is a Senior Associate with the Balanced Scorecard Institute, and principal of his consulting firm, The Decision Group.
Will’s education includes a BSEE from Clarkson University, an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an honorary Ph.D. from the Universal School of Hard Work and Hard Knocks.