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Something To Think About - 3/27/24

Second up in spurious lawsuits is the one brought against Tesla for Elon Musk’s outsized pay package, one any of us would like to receive to be sure, but this plaintiff owns a whopping 100 shares that he paid $200 for and are now worth ten times that and yet he claims that Mr. Musk is not worth what he’s being paid.

Something To Think About - 3/26/24

Last month’s court ruling against Donald Trump for supposedly inflating the collateral value of his properties is another example of partisan over-reach and one step closer to our status as a Banana Republic. There is no victim here bringing a complaint, just a New York State Attorney General fulfilling a campaign promise to get Trump. Even Duetsche Bank, the lender, said they had no complaints, that they were paid back the loan with interest and were not harmed in any way, shape or form.

Something To Think About - 3/22/24

Columnist Sydney J. Harris said that “It’s a toss-up as to which are finally the exasperating – the dull people who never talk, or the bright people who never listen.”

Something To Think About - 3/21/24

California’s budget woes continue despite Gavin Newsome’s claims to the contrary. The Legislative Analyst’s Office now projects the shortfall at $73 billion twice that of the Governor’s estimate. And with the top 1%, or at least those that are left, paying 50% of the state’s income tax, future revenues to cover the shortfall are looking doubtful. Given his thinly disguised presidential aspirations it looks like he’ll fit right in with deficit happy Washington.

Something To Think About - 3/20/24

Author Louis E. Boone advised us to “(not) fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”

Something To Think About - 3/19/24

As the debate over funding goes on, the war in Ukraine looks eerily like the 1930’s when Hitler annexed Austria under the guise of political unification, much like Vladimir Putin is doing with Ukraine has he tries to fulfill his announced reunification of his concept of Russia. Like Hitler, who went on to invade Czechoslovakia and Poland not to mention France, Putin started with the Crimean Peninsula and then moved on to Ukraine. What’s next if he is not stopped here and now?

Something To Think About - 3/14/24

The first Prime Minister of India, Nehru, could have been talking about our times when he noted that “On the whole, I think we shall survive. The outlook is as bad as it has ever been, but thinking people realize that – and therein lies the hope of its getting better.”

Something To Think About - 3/12/24

Argentina’s new president represents big change for that beleaguered country. He recently spoke at the notably liberal World Economic Conference in Davos claiming that “far from being the cause of our problems, free-trade capitalism as an economic system is the only instrument we have to end hunger, poverty and extreme poverty across our planet.”

Something To Think About - 3/9/24

Soldier-Statesman Colin Powell claimed that “There are no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”

Something To Think About - 3/7/24

John Steinbeck wrote: “A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well or ill?”
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