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TW Three
That was the week that was — March 10–15.
March 12
‘No Elon, You’re the Ponzi Scheme’
You don’t want to go to Mars. First, you want our money.
A wiser person once said, if there were a limit to greed and corruption, we would not tolerate the slightest malfeasance. Unfortunately, there is no limit to greed and corruption which is why we need public surveillance and protection. These are precisely the ‘watchdog’ positions Musk/DOGE are removing from our government under the false claim that it will save the taxpayer money.
It won’t save us money and we shouldn’t buy into this twisted claim. If eliminating surveillance and protection saved the taxpayer money, then when has it occurred in human history that once satisfied the corrupt leader will share his extracted largesse with the ‘simple folk?’
What comes around doesn’t always go around.
That’s the problem with Ponzi schemes.
March 15
Retiring Democrats
Where’s the Moxie?
What I need to understand is why Sen. Gary Peters, who last week announced his retirement from the Senate, voted FOR the Republican CR and his colleague from Michigan, Elissa Slotkin, who barely eight weeks into the job and has far more at risk, voted…