Raul F. Amaya


R C & RFA

  • Raul is financial services entrepreneur & an independent representative of Primerica Financial Services with 25 years of experience in the financial services industry.
  • Raul is an instructor at UTEP’s Department of Professional & Public Programs teaching a class on how to do personal financial analyses with a financial calculator.
  • Raul was a consultant for the El Paso Independent School District where he taught 80 high school business technology, economics & social studies teachers how to use a financial calculator to do personal financial analyses so they can in turn teach their students to do the same.
  • Raul is a member of the financial literacy subcommittee of the Invest in the American Dream Community Initiative sponsored by the office of Senator Eliot Shapleigh, the goal of which is to obtain federal grants to foster financial stability, wealth creation, financial literacy, & access to capital for the citizens of El Paso County.
  • Raul is a Condemnation Commissioner for the County of El Paso & the Texas Department of Transportation.
  • For 11 years Raul was an opinion & personal finance columnist for the El Paso Times.
  • Raul is a member of the National Issues Forum that telecasts its community forums 3 to 4 times per year on PBS Channel 13.
  • Raul graduated from Jesuit High School and the University of Texas at El Paso with a B.B.A. in Business Management, Real Estate, & a Texas Teacher Certification.

a poem by
Raul F. Amaya

Look into the clear night sky, think of how and wonder why, why stars in space, the human race, big bang, evolution, or divine creation? Or is God man’s invention?

Look into the clear night sky, think of how and wonder why, why we live and then must die?

Is there a plan for the cosmos and man?

Look into the clear night sky, there you see infinity. There’s the past, what has it made you? Ahead lies the future, how will it shape you? How will you shape it?

Yet as wander through space and time, here and now is all we’ve got.

So seize the moment, love and laugh, care and share, dream and hope, play and pray, create and question, seek and speak the truth of for what, for who, why me, why you?

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Everybody is a Philosopher strives to be different from talk shows that primarily concentrate on local & national current events & politics. My show tries to elevate these topics by exploring their philosophical implications.

The program is about discovering people’s philosophy of life and asking questions such as: What is the meaning of life? What makes meaningful? What are the facts of life? Is there a God, & what is He or She like? Why are we here? What happens to our consciousness when we die? How does one determine the truth of things? Is there such a thing as the truth, right & wrong, just & unjust behavior? Why are we the way we are? Is it nature and genes, or the environment and nurture that determine our being? Why is there evil in the world? Why do bad things happen to good people? What is the ideal form of government? What should the government’s job be?

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