Author: Joel Gross

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/october/ers-tracks-meat-prices-at-the-retail-wholesale-and-farm-levels/

Something is wrong here. Ranchers are getting less money while meat packers get more. Looks like a monopoly?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/blog/2021/09/08/addressing-concentration-in-the-meat-processing-industry-to-lower-food-prices-for-american-families/

I bought a new-to-me fifth wheel a couple of weeks ago, a 2021 Keystone Montana High Country 40′ long, that the previous owner lived in for a little over a year and kept in excellent condition.

My family and I slept in it the first night in our driveway to test it out and had fun.… read more “First Fifth Wheel Road Trip”

The gravel road to the Guler ice caves is blocked by a downed tree. It clearly has been there awhile. The park service was founded with the ideal of making these parks accessible recreation areas for all Americans. Every organization starts with a mission, turns into a business, then becomes a racket. The parks service employees now work hard to close off access to Americans by shutting down roads and travels officially, and by stopping maintenance unofficially.… read more “National Parks Service”

I highly recommend “Edison as I know him” by Henry Ford.

I became convinced a few months ago that buying a fifth wheel camper trailer was the way to go. I bought one a couple of weeks ago and am currently on our first trip. I am not so sure it was a good decision. This post will analyze it a bit further.

I spent a lot of time on RV trader and craigslist and built a spreadsheet of 37 options.… read more “Buying a newish fifth wheel camper trailer: is it worth it?”

“Law never does anything constructive. It can never be more than a policeman, and so it is a waste of time to look to our state capitals or to Washington to do that which law was not designed to do. As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.… read more “Henry Ford on Laws”

“Speculation in things already produced – that is not business. It is just more or less respectable graft.”

Ford: “Experience and reform do not go together. A reformer cannot keep his zeal at white heat in the presence of a fact. He must discard all facts.”

Many government regulations are set up by smart people with the best of intentions. Government regulations are an extraordinarily powerful tool and quite frequently the results of those regulations are the opposite of what people had originally intended. A few examples:

• National parks were originally set up to be “pleasuring grounds” – areas all Americans to recreate and enjoy.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-has-biden-sold-off-more-oil-every-past-president-combined-1754084

Risking energy security to win an election is a bad look.