PreserveTheAmericanDream.com (PAID)

Founder and Director of PAID

Al Parinello

PAID was born out of a disheartening sense of frustration and disappointment that the American Dream is dying agonizingly and slowly. Alfred Richard Parinello has achieved the proverbial American Dream and wants to preserve it for others. Al was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1949 to blue-collar hard working loving parents who were under-educated, under-motivated and soon nastily divorced. Al went on to identify ways out of the near poverty conditions of his youth. He believed the words his family elders imparted in his mind: that anyone in America can succeed both personally and professionally if they are fair with others, choose to study and work hard. That’s exactly what Al set out to do in discovering his American Dream.

A proud American Dreamer, Al has experienced an extensive 38-year career in the media. Among his accomplishments, he has owned and operated WJSE an FM radio station that once had few listeners, no ratings and certainly no advertisers. Under Al’s entrepreneurial management it spiraled upward to become the highest rated rock station in the state of New Jersey. Leveraged between the radio and television jobs along the way Al became an astute investor and real estate developer. In total he has either started or partnered in over a dozen ventures on the journey to his own success. But the ascension was tougher than he imagined it needed to be.

In television Al is recognized for planning the expansion of cable television in America through the use of the first domestic satellite system launched into space in the early 1980’s. He designed and implemented the programming distribution plans for the Who’s Who of cable TV networks including HBO, Showtime, ESPN, CNN, Disney Channel, etc.

Additionally, Al spearheaded the executive marketing team that developed and successfully launched the popular cable networks, Nickelodeon and The Movie Channel for Warner Communications. He created, produced and co-hosted the nationally syndicated radio program, Your Own Success broadcast in over 125 markets nationally. Also he authored the best-selling media/marketing book, On The Air. Al has produced over 100 live world-class concerts in Atlantic City and Las Vegas casino’s featuring such artists as Kiss, Stone Temple Pilots, Lenny Kravitz, Snoop Dogg, Kidd Rock, Michelle Branch, Korn, Enrique Inglesias, 3 Doors Down, Nickelback etc. Also he created and produced the award winning Broadway on the Boardwalk series at Trump Plaza Casino in Atlantic City (Parinelloent.com). Among Al’s current media activities include his company JSE Computers, a national web design and search-optimization firm (JSEcomputers.com) and he is executive producer of his first Independent movie. Clear Blue Tuesday is an in-depth look into the lives of six New York City couples as they explore their personal aftermath of 9/11 (clearbluetuesday.com).

As Al’s business projects succeeded, he became disenchanted with the unattractive accoutrements to success that gradually surrounded him. In essence he felt the victim of his own success. He began to realize an unfortunate truth: people became envious if not jealous and they felt perfectly righteous about attacking in unimaginable ways. Some associates including employees became so irritated that they filed nonsensical and frivolous lawsuits in order to grab some of the profits rather than earn them. These disrespectful attacks were not what he contemplated as he set out to succeed financially in America.

Simultaneously Al began to feel the impact of new laws that were enforced to punish successful people by making business growth almost impossible to attain. Government policies and demands became so burdensome and expensive that great ideas had to be stifled, in order to just survive. State and local tax authorities began to punish the financially successful by demanding higher and higher tax rates with threats of stiff fines and penalties for non-compliance. Expensive and difficult laws and policies were rolled out under the questionable guise that government agencies were aiding and assisting business owners. Politically the country set out to punish those who took brave risks that contributed to the goodness of society while rewarding those who were only taking from society. The logic of the business world was spinning madly out of control and time-honored doctrine was being turned upside-down.

Soon the bottom 50% of American taxpayers paid only 3.6% of total income taxes while the top 10% paid over two thirds! This is lunacy! And the ever-accomplice media agreed that this backwards thinking was acceptable and questioned those who challenged this lopsided logic. The print and electronic media has historically leaned left in its collective thinking but was now leaning so hard that it was tipping the scales of fairness. When illogical statements are repeated over and over by familiar newscasters and reporters, they tend to become acceptable, especially if the recipient masses greatly gain from that unfair bias.

College professors contributed to America’s spiral downward by influencing students with anti-wealth policies and threats of failing those who didn’t adjust their thinking accordingly. Courts steadily handed out penalties so absurd the jury awards became a form of wealth re-distribution for cases that could not fairly be won in a free marketplace.

As a successful entrepreneur Al has slogged through this upside-down logic and has lived what he preaches. He espouses that the most hated and despised minority in America has become those who have created a degree of wealth. And that reality sickens him. As a white male in America, Al never thought of himself as belonging to any particular minority, but as a financially successful person, minority status with all of its inherent unfairness and ugliness is thrust rapidly on unsuspecting souls.

Unlike other minorities however, wealthy people have no place to turn for assistance in righting the wrongs they are subjected to every day of their lives.

These are only some of the frustrations that contributed to the birth of Preserve the American Dream (PAID). Pursuing the American Dream was a goal and a promise that took one man born into poverty on a journey of a lifetime. Defenselessly watching the Dream dissipate and knowing that there are many others like himself who wish and deserve to achieve it themselves is reason enough to give birth to PAID. Without the American Dream we are all destined to live in mediocrity. The destroyers of the American Dream, perhaps because of their conviction that they themselves can’t attain it, want it that way.

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