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Bravo, Mr. Trump (My Saint), for giving it to the Stock Market

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[May Youtube and all victims recover quickly; my prayers are with a truly great company and it's employees] Note to CNN: Mr. Mudd is all you need in the way of outside expert. POTUS As many of you know, I don't like everything Mr. Trump does (Big spender PRUITT at top of my disdain list) but readers of this blog also know that I consider Wall St the devil incarnate. Amazon To be clear, I like the convenience of Amazon but what kind of people do we become when possibly the only source of exercise is taken away from us--going to the store. Soon, even groceries will be brought to our doorstep. I would love for the MSM to run poll asking if the public is aware of the pyramid scheme and the zero-sum game that is our beloved financial institution. I'm convinced that few would know of the devil that is in the details. The reader need only consider that dirtbags like Mr. Zuckerburg (don't let him tell you that he's acting out of SEC regulations) can't wait to ...

Congrats To Putin: the Flip Side.

Quick! note on previous post. I don't have any objections to how much the U.S. Government decides to pay its employees in salary and even retirement benefits; however allowing them to retire at age 50 at sizable fractions of their regular salary is nothing short of freewheeling on the part of Uncle Sam. The FBI, according to the present director, only accepts 5% of applicants. The draw may be service to country or sweet compensation. One is noble and the other self-serving but neither should merit the right to retire with partial salary unless disabled on the job. It just borders on the reason many revolutions are fought. They are ought against the privileged. If I have and you have, there is no reason to fight other than greed. If bureaucrats (including defense and law enforcement) want to ride "high on the hog," they and we should ask that it be Federal law that whatever benefit is granted to the Federally-employed, also be granted to the rest of us. Not to level th...