Nice Report #4 . . . As I have reported about my personal pleasure in Nice, France, I cannot help but read the many individual stories of Haitian and other refugees desperately struggling to find footholds in life. Recently I wrote as I have many times before about the $$ Trillions spent by nations on… continue reading »
NICE REPORT #3: 9/25,2021 Slow. Calm. Inexpensive. Tranquil. Peaceful. Un-stressful. Contented. This is Nice, France. Actually, I’ve decided not to go into any more detail about how human, humane, and rational Nice is. If I do, many of you will inevitably and eventually visit and start buying up all the reasonably priced… continue reading »
After three weeks and three days in France, I have been attempting to figure out if I’ve learned anything new and important about the United States from this 7,000 mile distance of my new perspective. I’ve learned that what I’ve thought for most of my adult lifetime remains true: Most leaders of most… continue reading »
How did Biden so horribly mismanage his abrupt withdrawal from Afghanistan? When I was in Reserve Officers Training Corps in college, it was made piercingly clear that when a U.S. Army force withdraws from combat it will carefully plan how to extract all military equipment. The press video reports the $Billions of U.S. military equipment… continue reading »
The much touted $ Trillion Infrastructure Bill continues the American financial model that taxes us to pay the already-wealthy. Consider: highways and bridges are built by giant multimillion dollar engineering and construction firms. The $ Billions such firms will receive in an Infrastructure bill will not “trickle down” to the tens of thousands almost about to… continue reading »
