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SusanInFlorida

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800,000 tech workers jobless in silicon valley. Most were cut prior to the rise of AI. That’s billions in California state income tax lost.

Photo above - screenshot courtesy of the film "Office Space". This worker did not recently lose his job to AI. He was axed previously. “California tech workers were hoping things would rebound this year.” There’s so much wrong with that sentence,... See More »

Price controls on insurance. $50 billion in homeowners’ savings, or does history show that something worse happens next?

Photo above – California beachfront living could get more affordable if the new governor caps insurance rates. Or will price controls mean California houses like these tumble into the sea even faster, or disappear in wildfires? Forget the... See More »

Wait – the Federal Reserve owns $6.7 TRILLION in securities, and that’s what’s propping up the stock market?

Photo above - Incoming Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh. Forced to resign from the federal reserve in 2011 by then-chairman Ben Bernanke. Warsh has a Harvard law degree and has been a university guest lecturer for the past 15 years. I plead... See More »

Railroad strike prevents 300,000 riders from getting to work. Union wants 4 years of wage increases at double the inflation rate.

Photo above - "Tag, you're it". NYC commuter train with colorful graffiti. The LIRR is now on strike, so 300,000 daily commuters will be deprived of the fine arts . . . You might think that taking the Long Island Railroad to work is pricey. And... See More »

Iran war costs reach $29 billion. This does NOT include higher prices on gasoline, food, airfare, etc.

Photo above - Stevie Wonder would like to have a word with us . . . “Congress questions Pentagon spending”. Has there ever been a LESS scary title for a senate hearing? A “bipartisan” congress is becoming annoyed at the Iran war, which costs... See More »

California high speed rail cost soars from $130 billion to $231 billion in less than a year. It’s not dead yet . . .

Photo above - this is NOT the "Gambler's Express" bullet train from LA to Vegas. That was proposed in 2008 (when Arnold Schwarznegger was governor, and Obama was president. Billions have been spent so far, without a single mile of track being laid.... See More »

Which gives a better return on investment? A college degree, or putting money in the stock market?

Photo above – Screenshot courtesy of "Coming to America' (1988); The Wealthy Barber was published a year later in Canada. It is seldom included in college or high school curriculums. The cynics among us can probably answer this question – is a... See More »

New data center emits heat equivalent to 23 nuclear bombs - every day. How much will the electricity cost for air conditioning?

Photo above - HBO's WestWorld screen shot. Delores asks: "Oh, Teddy . . .why can't we just leave now, before they build the worlds largest data center over there?" Utah was one of the sites used for on-location filming of the show's outdoor... See More »

Starbucks to close Seattle HQ and lose 2,000 jobs after mayor calls for boycott? (“Mess around and find out” edition)

Photo above - Seattle experiences an average of 4 drug overdose deaths daily. New Mayor Katie Wilson ran on a platform of boycotting Starbucks, possibly because addicts don't vote . . . It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. Newly... See More »

Driverless cars still 5 years away – again. The Tesla version costs $130K and is geo-fenced to a 25 square mile grid.

Photo above – this is NOT the 2026 Tesla robotaxi. It’s an autonomous car from HBO’s WestWorld TV series, 5 years ago. The actual Tesla robotaxi looks like a base Model Y and costs $150,000. Robo taxis are not yet permitted to use the interstate.... See More »

America is spending $6 billion a week on gasoline. Who do I blame for astronomical prices? Trump? Iran? Israel?

Photo above - the gas station nearest my apartment. If you take a drive, you can find lower ones, though. Where I live (Tampa), gasoline is WAAY over $4.00 a gallon. It was $4.20 on Monday, so it could be anything today. At least we’re not living... See More »

Imagine your city has a 33% office vacancy rate. What’s the most absurd thing you could do in response?

Photo above - San Francisco politicians plan to transform their beleaguered city into something like Stockholm, with $300 million new taxes to fight mental illness. Wait til you see what they plan to tax . . . Word up to socialists: taxes on stuff... See More »

Federal government to pay $9 million to help farmers destroy $500 million in peach tree orchards.

Photo above - guess how many thousands of acres of decades old peach trees you can destroy with $9 million . . .? Things I did not know: Del Monte Foods filed bankruptcy last year. Del Monte is privately owned by some company in Singapore. Del... See More »

Wait – some people get $100,000 a year in social security benefits?

[i]Photo above – found ‘em! Possible geezer retirees banking $100,000 a year in Social Security benefits. Never in my wildest dreams did I think anyone was getting $100,000 a year in social security benefits. But that’s what some married... See More »

We have arrived! The national debt now exceeds the earnings of every US worker, corporation, hospital, university, and farm in America. What’s next?

Photo above - screen cap from the Apple TV series "For all mankind". NASA reaches the moon second, after the Soviet Union. A Saturn 5 rocket explodes on the launchpad killing dozens. This year, interest payments alone on the national debt will... See More »

Average price reductions on Florida Real estate are now 10%. Did the mystery buyer of Florida's most-expensivist $300MM home get a $30MM discount?

Photo above – Florida real estate brokers say that just one potential buyer has toured this bespoke property, and no further tours are scheduled. The asking price is $300 million. Caveat – I’m not personally seeing “10% off” home signs in the pa... See More »

America dodges $500 million bullet, refuses to bail out Spirit Airlines. The savings will pay for another 6 hours of the Iran war.

Photo above - air show by the Commemorative Air Force, based in Deland Florida, before Spirit Airlines announced they were ceasing operations today. Readers will recall from my previous columns that I was critical of Trump’s plan to bail out... See More »

Elon Musk’s compensation in 2025 was $158 Billion. But Tesla profits were only $4 billion . . .

Photo above - Elon Musk ponders his good fortune. The WSJ reports that Tesla shareholders approve his $158 billion compensation package least year to "encourage him to spend more time at the company . . . " How is this even possible? How can Elon... See More »

Is this really true? Elon Musk believes a solar farm 100 miles by 100 miles could power the entire USA?

Photo above - our solar powered future, as rendered in Minecraft. Elon Musk's dream of a 10,000 square mile solar farm probably dwarfs this . . . A solar farm 100 miles by 100 miles powers the entire nation. That’s what Elon Musk said. (see link... See More »

What uses more electricity than the ENTIRE state of Utah?

Photo above - artist's conception of the upcoming "world's largest data center", in Utah. Soaring eagle not included in actual specs and blueprints. Or is that a condor? Dateline – Box Elder County, Utah. 40,000 acres (not a misprint, that's 60... See More »

Wait – grocery stores are using ‘dynamic pricing” to raise prices on my favorite stuff? Higher prices for me alone?

Photo above - screen shot from the Barbie movie. She does not repeat her iconic line "math is hard" from the 1992 teen-talk-Barbie era. Evidently driving still is, though. Kudos to New Jersey (where I don’t live) for getting out in front of this.... See More »

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Presidential assassin Cole Tomas Allen. What was his motive?

At last nights white house correspondents' dinner Cole Tomas Allen - a California teacher of the month and registered democrat - tried to breach the metal detectors "matrix style" while openly toting a shotgun, at least one pistol, and multiple... See More »

Half a billion dollars to save 14,000 Spirit Airlines jobs? That's $40,000 per job (check my math)

Photo above – Passengers celebrate the news that Spirit now has service from Ft. Lauderdale to Costa Rica, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Raise your hand if you want to fly nonstop from Fort Lauderdale to Guatemala. Frontier is America’s worst... See More »

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Invest in yourself! Newsom just spent millions buying his own memoir. This is not illegal - it’s the same as donating to your own campaign.

Photo above - Does using the American flag as a backdrop boost book sales? I might want to try this myself . . . The New York Time is outraged – outraged, I tell you – to find Gavin Newsom’s “Young Man in a Hurry” is not really a best seller... See More »

How would YOU solve a $300 billion pension funding gap? By reducing the retirement age from 57 to 55?

Photo above – Sri Lanka is the ONLY place in the world where you can retire on pension at age 55. California just matched it. If you guessed it would be California reducing the retirement age for government workers to 55, go to the head of the... See More »

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