I am beginning to wonder if Amazon has ever done anything straight-shooting and/or above board – to acquire its massive market dominance and cash cap ($744 billion). Amazon Retail for nearly two decades has submarined and strip mined brick-and-mortar competitors by selling nigh everything during the retail-make-or-break Christmas season – at a loss. Amazon: Nearly…
For those who don’t pay particularly close attention to politics – those on the Left lie. A LOT. They lie about Donald Trump-Russia collusion. They lie about their Russia collusion. They lie about green energy being green and energy – it’s neither. They lie about government-run health insurance. They lie about government-run medicine. They lie…
For people not steeped in American cinematic history – Duck Soup: “The country of Freedonia is in the middle of a financial crisis and on the brink of revolution….(T)he government appoints Rufus T Firefly as its president. However, Mr Firefly shuns the pomp and pretentiousness of government; along with the prudence and rationality of it…
The federal government spends a whopping four trillion dollars per year. And prior to the Donald Trump Administration’s most overdue and much appreciated mass regulatory reductions – the federal government regulated at a compliance cost of two trillion dollars per year. That’s six trillion dollars per year worth of power – lorded over a country…
I am for MUCH less government than the massive, nauseating amounts with which we are currently befouled. The federal government alone spends MORE THAN FOUR TRILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR. The entire United States economy’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – the total productivity of every productive man, woman and child in the nation – is around…
The awful California wildfires that have killed dozens of people and destroyed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property – are absolutely atrocious. It is such an inconceivable loss. What makes the devastation and destruction additionally awful – is the awful, wasteful non-necessity of the massive magnitude. California Failed to Sufficiently Manage its Forests:…
This last week delivered us an end to a nauseating year-plus saga. Which consisted of the World’s Richest Man Jeff Bezos private jetting himself all around the nation. So as to have government after government promise to hand him ever larger piles of our money – in exchange for Bezos choosing their locale to locate…
In deference to America’s veterans on their official Day – God bless you all, thank you VERY much – let’s look at our nation’s cold civil war. To quote Robert Shaw from “The Sting”: “Temperatures are running a little high.” Just about the only portion of Barack Obama’s legacy still standing – is the heightened…
We have two very recent, polar-opposite visual aides on how government should approach policy – so as to elicit private sector growth. We have Barack Obama’s government-centric, high-tax-and-regulations, government-money-“Stimulus,” Socialism model. And we have Donald Trump’s private-sector-centric, low-tax-and-regulations, “Let the producers keep their coin and keep producing,” Capitalism model. The numbers are in – and…
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has for the last several months been considering private sector bids to provide the DoDs club backup computing services. It’s a big deal. Upwards of $10 billion for ten years’ worth of backup server service. Why Pentagon Cloud-Computing Contract Is a Huge Deal Ok – it’s a huge…
