Modern finance

Have you seen businesses that behave like sociopaths? Laying off good employees at random to boost a quarterly report, cutting the value provided to its customers, breaking promises to employees?

Modern finance is the true villain; it removes businesses from the hands of the real founders who understand it and puts it in the hands of clueless MBAs and greedy financiers.… read more “Modern finance”

Five days in

Preface: I voted for Biden in 2020.

Despite the absurd claims of the far left media, five days into the new administration, I am very happy with the policy progress being made.

Racist rules requiring hiring to be done according to discriminatory racial quotas have been overturned. Now everyone has a fair shot at getting government jobs or contracts.… read more “Five days in”

Education or Indoctrination?

As the father of four children, two of them who already attend public school part time, I am deeply concerned about the state of education in our country.

Despite massive spending on education in the United States, our kids are falling farther behind their international peers. The Federal government became heavily involved in education in 1980 with the creation of the Department of Education and since then student performance has dropped.… read more “Education or Indoctrination?”

People

People through the history of the human species, millions of years, had children early and often as their bodies could until they either aged out or died. People have a strong biological urge to have sex that the brain is not able to override. This evolved because people who did not want sex did not have children and their genes were not passed on.… read more “People”

Doctors and Hospitals Hide Overbillings

Standard practice now by doctors and hospitals is to massively overbill for services. I had a physical done at Confluence Health a few months ago and my insurance company and I were billed $1,400 for that half hour visit. Even figuring out what they had billed us was challenging as they separated the charges out into multiple bills and different line items on each bill that did not actually say what services were supposedly rendered.… read more “Doctors and Hospitals Hide Overbillings”

Proposal for future city firestorms

Proposal for future fires in cities like Los Angeles:

LA ran out of water to fight the fire at a critical time. The issue was that it does not make sense to build a fresh water system capable of running hundreds of fire hydrants all at the same time.

Solution: set up an emergency system that can pump ocean or lake water up into the city mains.… read more “Proposal for future city firestorms”